Singapore Post has approached a bank to take out a mortgage loan purchase a new warehouse. The bank is willing to provide them with a 10-year loan of $400,000 at an interest rate of 12% per annum, compounding monthly. Singapore Post will be required to make monthly repayments on the loan. Calculate the monthly loan instalment that will be paid on the loan.   Assume that Singapore Post instead negotiates to make annual repayments on the loan. What is the annual effective interest rate on the current loan terms? Singapore Airlines has 8% $100,000 debentures outstanding in the corporate bond market, with exactly 8 years left until maturity. The bonds pays coupon half yearly. Calculate the price of the corporate bond to yield an investor 6% per annum, compounding half yearly.

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  1. Singapore Post has approached a bank to take out a mortgage loan purchase a new warehouse. The bank is willing to provide them with a 10-year loan of $400,000 at an interest rate of 12% per annum, compounding monthly. Singapore Post will be required to make monthly repayments on the loan.
    1. Calculate the monthly loan instalment that will be paid on the loan.

 

  1. Assume that Singapore Post instead negotiates to make annual repayments on the loan. What is the annual effective interest rate on the current loan terms?
  1. Singapore Airlines has 8% $100,000 debentures outstanding in the corporate bond market, with exactly 8 years left until maturity. The bonds pays coupon half yearly. Calculate the price of the corporate bond to yield an investor 6% per annum, compounding half yearly.
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