You as a real estate investor are considering adding additional studio apartments, currently being built, to your
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- You as a real estate investor are considering adding additional studio apartments, currently being built, to your investment portfolio. You are going to invest into 6 apartments with the total value of 1.4 million euros. You have reserved the apartments but the purchase price should be paid only in 9 month from now. Currently you have sufficient funds deposited in Cayman Islands (in US dollars). The annual interest rate on bank deposit is 2.10%. Another option would be to convert a certain amount of dollars into euros and deposit in a Latvian bank that offers 1.20%. The spot exchange rate is 1.2000 EUR/USD and the 9m forward rate is currently quoted with premium equal to +60 basis points.
So you have two possibilities to pay for the investment with exchange rate risk mitigated
a) Buy forward contract to sell dollars and buy euros in 9 months (and continue to deposit dollars)
b) Invest enough euros into the Latvian bank to meet the future obligation.
Questions:
* Try to show with calculations, which option has the lowest present value cost for you in dollars?
* Compute the correct forward rate implied by the interest rates.
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