Morning View National Bank reports that its assets have a duration of 7 years and its liabilities average 1.75 years in duration. To hedge this duration gap, management plans to employ Treasury bond futures, which are currently quoted at 112-170 and have a duration of 10.36 years. Morning View’s latest financial report shows total assets of $100 million and liabilities of $88 million. Approximately how many futures contracts will the bank need to cover its overall exposure?
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Morning View National Bank reports that its assets have a duration of 7 years and its...
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Village Bank has $210 million worth of assets with a duration of 14 years and liabilities worth $168 million with a duration of four years. In the interest of hedging interest rate risk, Village Bank is contemplating a macrohedge with interest rate T-bond futures contracts now selling for 102-20 (30nds). The T-bond underlying the futures contract has a duration of nine years. If the spot and futures interest rates move together, how many futures contracts must Village Bank sell...
Consider the following balance sheet (in millions) for an FI: Assets Duration = 13 years $ 970 Liabilities Duration = 5 years Equity $ 900 70 a. What is the Fl's duration gap? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places. (e.g., 32.16)) b. What is the Fl's interest rate risk exposure? c. How can the Fl use futures and forward contracts to create a macrohedge? d. What is the impact on the Fi's equity value...
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Consider the following balance sheet (in millions) for an FI: Assets Duration = 10 years $ 910 Liabilities Duration = 4 years Equity $ 810 100 a. What is the Fl's duration gap? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places. (e.g., 32.16)) b. What is the Fl's interest rate risk exposure? c. How can the Fl use futures and forward contracts to create a macrohedge? d. What is the impact on the FI's equity...
Lia bilities Duration 7 years $120 Duration 5 years $108 Average interest rate 6.00% $12 Al What is the bank's duration Ga 1 What is the bank's interest rate risk exposure? Why? (Hint: this is a qualitative question: exposure if interest rate increase or decrease? Justify your answer C) How can the bank use futures ajd forward contracts to put on a macro-hedge Hint: this is a qualitative question) what is the impact on the bank's equity if the interest...
Lia bilities Duration 7 years $120 Duration 5 years $108 Average interest rate 6.00% $12 Al What is the bank's duration Ga 1 What is the bank's interest rate risk exposure? Why? (Hint: this is a qualitative question: exposure if interest rate increase or decrease? Justify your answer C) How can the bank use futures ajd forward contracts to put on a macro-hedge Hint: this is a qualitative question) what is the impact on the bank's equity if the interest...
First Duration Bank has the following assets and liabilities
on its balance sheet.
What is the duration of the commercial loans?
First Duration Bank has the following assets and liabilities on its balance sheet Rate Liabilities Par Amount $450 million 70 Par Amount 2-year commercial $400 million loans al fired rate at par 1-year Treasury bulls S100 million 10°. I ar CDs al feed raalpur Net Worth $50 million 7. What is the duration of the commercial loans? A 1.00...
Row Bank has assets of $150 million, liabilities of $135 million, and equity of $15 million. The duration the assets is two years and the duration of the liabilities is ten years. Row Banks has a __adjusted duration gap. A position in T-bond futures should be used to hedge the interest rate risk Select one: O a. negative; short b. negative; long c. positive; short d. positive; long
Hedge Row Bank has the following balance sheet (in millions): Assets $170 Liabilities $102 Equity 68 Total $170 Total $170 The duration of the assets is 7 years and the duration of the liabilities is 5.2 years. The bank is expecting interest rates to fall from 10 percent to 9 percent over the next year. a. What is the duration gap for Hedge Row Bank? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places. (e.g., 32.16)) THE ANSWER FOR PART A IS...
Suppose the First National Bank of Duluth has $500.00 million in total assets with an average asset duration of five years. Assume that the bank’s liabilities are comprised of $86.75 million of demand deposits and $163.75 million in bonds with a 4.00% coupon rate (which pays annually) and a five year time-to-maturity. Further assume that current market interest rates are at 9.00% per annum. What is this bank’s duration gap? Is the bank asset- or liability-sensitive?
This is another exam type question, covering numerouse subtopics. Consider the following balance sheet (in million) for a bank: Liabilities Assets Duration- 10 years $950 Duration-2 years $860 $90 Equity- The bank's leverage adjusted duration gap is about R) 0.01, equity would change by (calculate to two decimals). With this duration gap the bank should worry rising/falling) interest rates. In fact, if the relative change in interest rates is an increase of 1 per cent, that is AR/(1 million dollars...