Bond portfolio yield Suppose you have just created a bond portfolio made up of 3 bond holdings.
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Bond portfolio yield Suppose you have just created a bond portfolio made up of 3 bond holdings. You bought 100 corporate bonds that have coupon rates of 7.4 %, compounded semiannually, with 14 years left until maturity. You bought 50 government coupon bonds that have coupon rates of 4.1 % and are compounded semiannually with 21 years left until maturity. You bought 150 zero-coupon government bonds that have 5 years left until maturity. All three bonds have face value of $1,000.
Your purchase prices on the bonds are (1) corporate bonds ($1,078.35),
(2) government coupon bonds ($976.34), and (3) zero-coupon bonds ($776.55).
What is your portfolio YTM?
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