You are an investment manager evaluating two corporate bonds, each with a maturity value of $100,000. Each bond matures in exactly 10 years and each bond has a yield-to-maturity (YTM) of 5%. Bond 1 pays a coupon of 8% and Bond 2 pays a coupon of 3%. Without doing any math, which bond trades at a higher price? Which bond is more sensitive to changes in interest rates? If both bonds have the identical maturity date and YTM, then why do they trade at different prices? Is this a violation of The Law of One Price ? If you buy Bond 1, what is the NPV of the cash flows?

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You are an investment manager evaluating two corporate bonds, each with a maturity value of $100,000. Each bond matures in exactly 10 years and each bond has a yield-to-maturity (YTM) of 5%. Bond 1 pays a coupon of 8% and Bond 2 pays a coupon of 3%.

Without doing any math, which bond trades at a higher price? Which bond is more sensitive to changes in interest rates? If both bonds have the identical maturity date and YTM, then why do they trade at different prices? Is this a violation of The Law of One Price ? If you buy Bond 1, what is the NPV of the cash flows?

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Value of the bond is the present value of the future payments at a given rate of return for particular period. Future payments includes coupon and face value of the bond.

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