This time, in lieu of a specific tip, we're publishing a list of all our tips. We hope one of these will help you. The next tip will follow our normal format, but we'll likely repeat this format sometime nearer to the exam time.
As always, to view the tips, follow the link to our homepage, click on tips, then click the tip you want. If you have something you would like to see us discuss, please email us at joeboor@embarqmail.com.
How to Solve the Buying and Selling Bonds Problems
Annuities Payable More Frequently Than Interest Is Compounded
How to Compute the Price of a Put from the Price of a Call (and Vice Versa) Using Put-Call Parity
A Shortcut For Valuing Annuities In Which Payments Increase or Decrease Exponentially
The Insider’s Guide to Varying Force of Interest Problems-The Four Types of Problems
A Special Shortcut for Some Force of Interest Accumulation Problems
Tactics to Help You Pass-Exam Strategy
Valuing Sums-Part 2: Calculating Increasing and Decreasing Annuities Using Steve’s Georithmic Sums Method
Valuing Sums – Part 1: Calculating Level Annuities-Even the Hard Ones
Risk-Adjusted Pricing or ‘How Do We Keep All Our Lies Straight?’
What is Arbitrage Anyway and Why Is the Forward Price Less than the Price the Stock is Supposed to Grow To?
We hope this helps.
Joe
Joseph (Joe) Boor, FCAS
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