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Finance for Business
Topic: Research on Financial market and Capital Budgeting Analysis
Type: Undertake research, analyse and conduct academic work within the topics of financial management
Assignment Tasks
This assignment task is a written report that include 3 parts:
Part 1 is a research on financial markets Part 2 is a fact finding of financial market of Australia and Part 3 is a risk analysis and project evaluation. To complete the assignment, groups are recommended to obtain data and information from relevant web sites, especially websites of Australia Stock Exchange: Australian Securities and Investment Commission and the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA). for their research. Using secondary data (researches done by other) for fact finding in Part 2 is not recommended and will be penalized.
Part 2. Fact Finding of Australian financial markets
2.1 Fact finding of the Australian Bond market
Do a fact finding and present an analysis of Australian bond market. The following questions should be addressed:
(1) Where the bonds are traded secondarily in Australia? What are the types of bonds are traded in that market place?
(2) Who provide bond rating service and what are ratings used for bonds in Australia?
(3) Identify the key differences between Australian Government Bonds and Australian Corporate Bonds, using information and data from ASIC's Money Smart (ASIC website)
(4) Explain the nature of yield to maturity (YTM), identify the relationship between coupon rate and YTM, using an example of bond evaluation with coupon rate which is higher and then lower than YTM for illustration.
(5) What is the interest rate risk and how does it affect bond price?
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