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Investors who believe that interest rates will rise most likely prefer to invest in:
A) inverse floaters
B) fixed-rate bonds
C) floating-rate notes.
Floating rate notes:
Floating rate notes is a bond that has variable coupon rates. The coupon rate is equal to money markets reference rate like LIBOR or Federal fund rates, maybe with a spread for example: LIBOR+1%.
The spread remains constant.
So a rise in interest rate will benefit floating-rate notes.
In the case of fixed-rate bonds, there is no benefit of rise in interest rates.
Inverse floaters are the opposite of floating-rate notes. Its coupon rate has an Inverse relationship to money market rates.
Answer: C) floating-rate notes.