After graduating from Telfer, you are hired by Bombardier Canada in its international financial investment...

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After graduating from Telfer, you are hired by Bombardier Canada in its international financial investment division. You have an extra $1,000,000 to invest for six months. You are considering the purchase of Canadian T-bills that yield 1.810 percent (that's a six month rate, not an annual rate by the way) and have a maturity of 26 weeks. The spot exchange rate is $1.00 = 100, and the six month forward rate is $1.00 = 110. The interest rate in Japan (on an investment of comparable risk) is 13 percent. What is your strategy? Take $1m, invest in Canadian T-bills. Take $1m, translate into yen at the spot, invest in Japan, hedge with a short position in the forward contract. Take $1m, translate into yen at the spot, invest in Japan, and repatriate your yen earnings back into dollars at the spot rate prevailing in six months. Take $1m, translate into yen at the forward rate, invest in Japan, hedge with a short position in the spot contract

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