Question 56 income and capital returns, bond pricing, premium par and discount bonds
Which of the following statements about risk free government bonds is NOT correct?
Hint: Total return can be broken into income and capital returns as follows:
rtotal=c1p0+p1−p0p0=rincome+rcapital
The capital return is the growth rate of the price.
The income return is the periodic cash flow. For a bond this is the coupon payment.