Reinvestment Risk Is the Risk That

question 61

Multiple Choice

Reinvestment risk is the risk that

• A) a bond's value may fall in the future.
• B) a bond's future coupon payments may have to be invested at a rate lower than the bond's yield to maturity.
• C) an investor's holding period will be short and equal in length to the maturity of the bonds he or she holds.
• D) a bond's issuer may fail to make the future coupon payments and the investor will have no cash to reinvest.

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