问题如下:
Based on Exhibit 1, the one-year expected return on the Entre Corp. bond is closest to:
选项:
A.3.73%.
5.50%.
7.27%.
解释:
A is correct. The expected return on the Entre Corp. bond over the next year is its yield to maturity plus the expected percentage price change in the bond over the next year. In the table below, for each possible transition, the expected percentage price change is the product of the bond’s modified duration of 7.54, multiplied by –1, and the change in the spread, weighted by the given probability:
Expected percentage price change = (0.0002 × 6.786%) + (0.0030 × 4.524%) + (0.0480 × 3.016%) + (0.8573 × 0.000%) + (0.0695 × –14.326%) + (0.0175 × –37.700%) + (0.0045 × –60.320%)
= –1.76715%.
So, the expected return on the Entre Corp. bond is its yield to maturity plus the expected percentage price change due to credit migration:
Expected return = 5.50% – 1.77% = 3.73%.
请问,题干中的“one year expected return ”的one year 在这里有啥特殊意义嘛