Simple, long-only, bond strategies. The following exercise gets you to consider some simple, and indeed popular, long-only bond strategies. To make the calculations simpler, I am assuming throughout that you can trade zero coupon bonds. a. Given the above continuously compounded yield curve, please calculate the prices of zero-coupon bonds of all maturities. b. What is the return earned by each zero-coupon bond over 1 year if the yield curve doesn't move? c. Assume that you have a 5-year investment horizon. What is the total return you earn for each of the following strategies if the yield curve does not move? i. Buy and Hold - Buy the 5-year bond and hold to the maturity. ii. Riding the Yield Curve - Buy the 5y bond, hold for one year, then sell when it has 4 years left to maturity, buy another 5yr bond, repeat. iii. Bond Ladder - Start by investing 20% of your wealth in bonds of each maturity. At the end of the first year, when the 1yr bond matures, invest the proceeds in a new 5yy bond, repeat. d. Please comment on the duration of these strategies given the assumptions in (c). (Hint: You can plot the investment portfolio's duration of each strategy over time.) e. Suppose you are to invest 1 million HKD in bonds and the monthly change in the interest rate always follows a normal distribution with mean 4.71105 and standard deviation 0.00432, please comment on the VaR of these strategies given the assumptions in (c). f. Given the assumption in (c) and (e), please comment on the expected shortfall of these strategies