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3 Financial Principles discussion questions

1.

Class, I’m sure many of you remember the Publisher’s Clearing House sweepstakes – like me, some of you may even have been a finalist for the super prize of $10 million. 🙂 If you did win this prize, you would not actually receive a check for $10 million. Instead, you would receive $500,000 per year for 20 years. Imagine that you actually were the lucky winner. From a purely financial standpoint, would you be willing to accept $8 million today rather than $500,000 per year for the next 20 years? Why or why not? What non-financial factors might also be considered?

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Read the “Global Economic Crisis” story below. Discuss the credit default swaps and the effects it had on the financial crisis.

Global Economic Crisis

Insuring with Credit Default Swaps: ; Let the Buyer Beware!

Recall that a credit default swap (CDS) is like an insurance policy. ; The purchaser of the CDS agrees to make annual payments to a counterparty that agrees to pay if a particular bond defaults. ; During the 2000s, investment banks often would purchase CDS for the mortgage-backed securities (MBS) they were creating in order to make the securities more attractive to investors. ; But how good was this type of insurance? ; As it turned out, not very. ; For example, Lehman Brothers might have brought a CDS from AIG in order to sell a Lehman-created MBS to an investor. ; But when the MBS began defaulting, neither Lehman nor AIG was capable of making full restitution to the investor.

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Suppose you owned a portfolio consisting of $250,000 of U.S. government bonds with a maturity date of 30 years. Would your portfolio be riskless? What if your portfolio consisted of $250,000 of 30-day Treasury bills? Every 30 days your bills mature, and you reinvest the principle ($250,000) in a new batch of bills. Assume that you live on the investment income from your portfolio and that you want to maintain a constant standard of living. Is your portfolio truly riskless? Can you think of any asset that would be completely riskless? What security comes closest to being riskless? Explain.

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