Question: Your client Small and Bold, a leading microfinance entity, is considering developing a new five - year fund SBOLD to expand operations across the world.

Your client Small and Bold, a leading microfinance entity, is considering developing a new five-year fund SBOLD to expand operations across the world. SBOLDs sources of funding include:
Commercial investors who demand security and high rates of return
Sub-commercial investors who like security and are willing to accept lower rates of
return because they believe in Small and Bolds mission
Small and Bolds funds
The terms for SBOLDs investors are in the table below.
Investor Type Yearly Interest Size of Investment
Commercial 8%50m
Sub-commercial 6%20m
Small and Bold 5%5m
The investments in SBOLD are expected to grow by some figure between -26% and 44% each
year - this return can vary from year to year (it need not be the same all five years) and will be
randomly, evenly (uniformly) distributed between -26% and 44%.
Interest is paid every year at the end of the year to each investor group according to the interest
rate and initial size of the investment (shown above). The interest is paid out of the investments and
the remaining funds stay invested for next year. So for example, if at the beginning of the year,
$80m was invested, the return for that year was 10%, and interest of $7 million was owed for the
year, SBOLD would have $80 x (1+10%)- $7= $81 million in investments at the end of the
year.
The principal (which corresponds to the size of the initial investment) will be paid back at the
end of 5 years if there are sufficient funds available. At the end of time 5, the Commercial
Investors get paid their principal first, the Sub-commercial Investors get paid their principal
second, and Small and Bold gets whatever is left over after paying these investors.
a. What are the amounts that Commercial Investors, Sub-Commercial Investors, and Small
and Bold expect to get paid back in principal (assume they get paid all of their promised
interest all 5 years)? Please run at least 5,000 observations and calculate the average.
b. How often do our Commercial and Sub-Commercial investors get paid back in full?
c. Sub-commercial investors are concerned that they are taking too much risk for the
return they receive. These investors would like to receive a share of the profits after
Small and Bold get paid back their investment of $5m in year 5. What percentage of the
SBOLDs profits should the Sub-commercial investors demand so they are expected to
average getting back $20 million in principal at year 5(this $20 million is in addition to
all of the interest they receive)?

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