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4. Appalling State You are running the fixed income investment portion of a fund at the Appalling State Insurance Company. You decide to get higher returns by entering into a six month (182 day) total return swap with Mega-Bank for a 10-year BBB corporate bond. The bond has a face value of USD 100 million and a coupon rate of 7.50%. The bond is currently trading at a price of 102. Six month LIBOR is 5.50% p.a. and you and Mega-Bank agree to a financing spread of 25 basis points (i.e. Mega-Bank will pay for 25 bp above LIBOR in 182 days). Compounding is of the form: number of days/360 for the floating interest rate payments. The termination date of the swap is an exact coupon date; i.e. the fixed interest rate investor receives ½ of the annual coupon payment. (a) What are the cash flows at the end of the swap if the bond is trading at a price of 104 3/8? (b) What are the cash flows if it is trading at par?



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