Fixed Income

3. Fixed-Income Issuance and Trading practice questions

3. Fixed-Income Issuance and Trading is part of CFA Level I Fixed Income. Fixed Income questions focus on bond cash flows, yield measures, duration, convexity, credit risk, securitization, and curve interpretation. Use this page to review the controlling ideas, then work through 7 questions with answer explanations and common traps.

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Fixed Income

3. Fixed-Income Issuance and Trading

A dealer purchases an entire new corporate bond issue from the issuer and resells the bonds to investors. This transaction is best described as:

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3. Fixed-Income Issuance and Trading

A fixed-income index is most likely to have higher exposure to issuers with the greatest amount of debt outstanding when the index uses:

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3. Fixed-Income Issuance and Trading

A newly issued bond sold by an underwriter to investors is issued in the:

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3. Fixed-Income Issuance and Trading

A major limitation of a market-value-weighted fixed-income index is that issuers with the largest index weights are often those with the:

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3. Fixed-Income Issuance and Trading

A bond is quoted at a clean price of 99.40. Accrued interest is 1.35 per 100 of par. The full price is closest to:

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3. Fixed-Income Issuance and Trading

A dealer quotes a bond bid of 98.70 and ask of 99.10. The bid-ask spread per 100 of par is closest to:

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3. Fixed-Income Issuance and Trading

An analyst estimates the yield of an infrequently traded bond by comparing it with recently traded bonds of similar maturity, coupon, and credit quality. The method is best described as: