Question: Consider a bond that has been issued by Bank of Montreal with a coupon rate of 6.17% that matures at the end of March 2018. The bond pays coupons semi-annually and its price on March 6 was 105.01
(a) Find the actual price an investor has to pay upon settling the transaction of buying a bond given that interest has accrued until March 6.
(b) Find the bond's yield-to-maturity.
(c) Find the bond's price implied by the spot rates you have calculated in Question 5 and calculate the yield-to-maturity based on this implied price.
(d) How do you interpret the difference between the prices/yields that you have found in part (a) and (b) of the question?