This assignment is a partial requirement for your course titled Fixed Income Securities,
course code FIN 5205. Answer the following questions. You should submit a printed PDF
file that contains answer to all the questions.
Q1. How to determine YTM of a bond without any embedded options? Give an example.
Q2. Define a callable bond, a putable bond. How to value them? Give examples.
Q3. How to value a step-up callable note? How to value a capped floater? Give examples.
Q4. What is mortgage-backed securities? What is asset-backed securities? How to value them?
Give examples.
Q5. Discuss the framework for assessing trading securities by referring to principle of leverage,
borrowing funds via repurchase agreements, total return and controlling for interest rate risk.
Q6. What do you understand by binomial securities?