Building a dedicated portfolio of coupon-paying bonds to ensure that there are sufficient cash inflows to pay for scheduled cash outflows does not:
Answer
A
rely on coupon payments and the maturing or sale of bonds to meet those cash outflows.
B
qualify for accounting defeasance in which both the assets and the liabilities can be removed from the balance sheet.
C
potentially suffer from the cash-in-advance constraint since sufficient funds must be available on or before each cash outflow date.
Question 2
Question
Consider the following characteristics of a company’s debt liabilities: MV = $50M, ModDur = 6, BPV = 30,000.
The asset portfolio consists of the following: MVbonds = $65M, ModDur = 3, BPV = 19,500, long 70 interest rate futures contracts with a BPV of 75.
The asset manager, following a contingent immunization approach, is: