Ashe thinks that equity markets are currently at fair value and is of the view that they will not be more than 5% higher or lower than their current levels in 1 years time. Ashe currently has all of his cash invested in treasury bills yielding 0.20% but would like to improve this yield and is not averse to putting some of his capital at risk. Ashe seeks the advice of his bankers as to how he can improve the yield on his cash by buying equity-linked notes.

a. Assuming you work for the bank, structure and discuss the details and workings of 3 significantly different yield notes that allow Ashe to capitalize on his view of a stable equity market Support your answer with graphs and/or payoff formulas b. Given the following potential underlying assets for each of the three notes proposed above, which underlying would you choose and why?

c. Which of these 3 solutions would you recommend and why? Take into account different elements including price, downside risk, upside potential, etc.

Name S&P 500 Facebook Wynn Resorts Salesforce.com Fifth Third Bancorp Ticker SPX FB WYNN CRM FITB Price $2,071 $ 81 $137 $65 $19 Dividend Yield 1.98% 0.0% 4.6% 0.0% 2.70% 1Y Implied Vol 16% 27% 27% 34% 21% 1y Return 10.3% 14.1% -40.6% 6.2% -11.9% Name S&P 500 Facebook Wynn Resorts Salesforce.com Fifth Third Bancorp Ticker SPX FB WYNN CRM FITB Price $2,071 $ 81 $137 $65 $19 Dividend Yield 1.98% 0.0% 4.6% 0.0% 2.70% 1Y Implied Vol 16% 27% 27% 34% 21% 1y Return 10.3% 14.1% -40.6% 6.2% -11.9%