Consider a leveraged 5-year inverse floater that makes annua…
Consider a leveraged 5-year inverse floater that makes annual payments, has an annual tenor, and annual reset dates. The coupon rate at year t is 20% – 2 r1,t-1{“version”:”1.1″,”math”:”r1,t-1″} where r1,t-1{“version”:”1.1″,”math”:”r1,t-1″}is the annually-compounded spot rate on a 1-year STRIPS at year t – 1. Suppose that the yield curve is flat at 5% (continuously compounded). Which of the following is closest to the duration of this leveraged inverse floater? Hint: the leverage here assumes that for every fixed-coupon paying bond, you have two floating rate notes and two zero coupon bonds.