Answer:
A Bond's current market value represented by
is the present value of a bond as on today. Present value of a bond is it's future cash flows in the form of coupon payments and principal repayment discounted at investor's expectation in the market also referred to as Yield to maturity(YTM).
Present value of a bond is given by the following equation,

where C= Annual coupon payments
YTM = Yield to maturity/ cost of debt/ market rate of return on similarly priced bonds
RV = Redemption value of bond
n = number of years to maturity
<u>a. A bond's coupon rate is higher than it's yield to maturity, then the bond will sell for more than face value.</u>
Hence, if the company pays more interest than what is paid in the market on similarly priced bonds, such bonds shall sell at more than their face value.
<u>b. If a bond's coupon rate is lower than it's yield to maturity, then the bond's price will increase over it's remaining maturity.</u>
Similarly, if a bond pays lower rate of interest than the market rate of interest on similarly priced bonds, the bond shall sell at lower than it's face value and the price will increase over the remaining life of such bonds.
Answer: c. Sydney can diversify 50% of her WillCo stock.
Explanation:
Employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) is simply referred to as an employee benefit where the employees of a particular company are given ownership interest as long as some certain criteria are met.
Once the workers become qualified participants, they can diversify certain percentage of their stocks. From the 1st-5th year, a qualified participant is allowed to diversify about 25% of his or her stock account and about 50% in the 6th year.
Based on the explanation, since Sydney has worked for WillCo for the last 20 years, Sydney can diversify 50% of her WillCo stock.
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In numerical form on the left and written out on amount line