NO.PZ2018120301000041
问题如下:
Wang is a fixed-income portfolio manager in a wealth management firm. The portfolio has 20% in 2-year bonds, 20% in 5-year bonds, 20% in 7-year bonds, 20% in 10-year bonds and 20% in 15-year bonds. Wang believes that the yield curve will loss curvature over the next 6-month. Based on his expectation, Wang plans to liquidate the position in 2-year, 10-year, and 15-year bonds, and invest the proceeds in the 5-year and 7-year bonds. By using the appropriate weights, the portfolio’s duration would remain unchanged before and after the strategy.
According to the information above, compared with the existing portfolio, if Wang implements the strategy planned, the new portfolio’s return will be:
选项:
A. Higher
B. Lower
C. Unchanged
解释:
A is correct.
考点:考察收益率曲度变化时,对应的策略
解析:现在的Portfolio是一个Laddered portfolio,Wang预测在未来6个月,收益率曲线的曲度会降低,即中期利率会相对于长短期利率下降。盈利的策略是Long中期债券。由于Wang打算把这个Laddered portfolio里面的短期与长期的债券卖出,买入中期债券构建成一个Bullet型的债券,并且保持Duration不变。显然这个Bullet债券会受益于收益率曲线曲度的降低。因此A正确。
虽然说曲度改变了,但是题目说了portfolio的duration没有改变,duration没有改变,应该是return不变呀!不然题目这里却冷不丁的说一下duration不变目的是什么