Sam Strother and Shawna Tibbs are vice presidents of Mutual of Seattle Insurance Company and codirectors of the companys pension fund management division. An important new client, the North-Western Municipal Alliance, has requested that Mutual of Seattle present an investment seminar to the mayors of the represented cities, and Strother and Tibbs, who will make the actual presentation, have asked you to help them by answering the following questions. Because the Boeing Company operates in one of the leagues cities, you are to work Boeing into the Presentation.

a. What are the key features of a bond?

c. How is the value of any asset whose value is based on expected future cash flows determined?

d. How is the value of a bond determined? What is the value of a 10-year, $1,000 par value bond with a 10% annual coupon if its required rate of return is 10%?

e. (1) What would be the value of the bond described in part d if, causing investors to require a 13% return? Would we now have a discount or a premium bond?

(2) What would happen to the bonds value if inflation fell, and r_d declined to 7%? Would we now have a premium or a discount bond?

(3) What would happen to the value of the 10-year bond over time if the required rate of return remained at 13%, or if it remained at 7%?