Assign 6
If you participate in the Assignment Discussion Board, summarize your findings in your paper.
Assignment Instructions
You should spend between $100,000 and $200,00011 on a group of debt investments. From your experience exploring the corporate, federal, and municipal bond markets, please select at least:
- One corporate bond purchase. One Treasury bill or bond.
- One municipal bond.
Finally, in a Word document, supplemented with Excel, please submit a recap of your activity if you think appropriate. Be sure to include an analysis of your decisions in your notes explaining your choice of bonds.
Checklist:
- Explain the nature and purpose of bonds.
- Explain call provisions and compute yield to call.
- Interpret bond ratings.
- Contrast current yield and yield to maturity.
This assignment is due by the end of Unit 6.
Directions for Submitting Your Assignment: Before you submit your assignment, you should save your work on your computer in a location and with a name that you will remember. Make sure your assignment is in the appropriate format (Word and Excel), then, when you are ready, you may submit it to the Unit 6 Assignment iii
