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Identify the rule, formula, or decision criterion before reading the answer choices. CFA Level I distractors often use the right vocabulary with the wrong condition.
Fixed Income
Bond Returns practice questions
Bond Returns 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 1 question with answer explanations and common traps.
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Fixed Income
Bond Returns
An investor buys a bond for USD980, receives a USD30 coupon after six months and reinvests it for six months at a periodic rate of 1.0%, receives another USD30 coupon at year-end, and sells the bond for USD1,005. The one-year holding period return is closest to:
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