In this assignment, you will make your initial purchase of bonds to build your portfolio. You will have a spending budget of $10,000 to be purchased in units of $1000 par value (include commission...

In this assignment, you will make your initial purchase of bonds to build your portfolio. You will have a spending budget of $10,000 to be purchased in units of $1000 par value (include commission cost). Before you purchase and record your purchased bonds you will need to complete the following steps.

In your Building Your Bond Portfolio paper,

• Develop a company profile sheet or fact sheet for each company you have selected.


• Analyze your selected bond companies’ fundamentals, which should include a summary of the companies’ qualitative and quantitative data. This should also include supporting data justifying your companies’ selection. Additionally,


• Create a tracking spreadsheet or table for your purchases.


• Develop a holding return calculations table for your purchases.


• Summarize companies’ peer-group analysis, year-end comparison, annual financial highlights, news events, and ratio analysis.


• Discuss how this portion of your portfolio will help you meet your financial goals.


• Compare, briefly, each of your selected bonds in terms of the provisions dealing with denomination, registration, callability, convertibility, sinking fund, security, additional debt, rights on default, and indenture modification. Indicate whether each of these characteristics will have a favorable or unfavorable influence on the price of the bond.

The Building Your Bond Portfolio paper,

• Must be 3 double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’sAPA Style(Links to an external site.)
  


• Must include a separate title page with the following:
  
  
  • Title of paper
  
  
  • Student’s name
  
  
  • Course name and number
  
  
  • Instructor’s name
  
  
  • Date submitted
  
  
  
  

For further assistance with the formatting and the title page, refer toAPA Formatting for Word 2013(Links to an external site.).

• Must utilize academic voice. See theAcademic Voice(Links to an external site.)resource for additional guidance.


• Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
  
  
  • For assistance on writingIntroductions & Conclusions(Links to an external site.)as well asWriting a Thesis Statement(Links to an external site.), refer to the Ashford Writing Center resources.
  
  
  
  


• Must use at least two credible sources, including a minimum of two from the Ashford University Library in addition to the course text.
  
  
  • TheScholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources(Links to an external site.)table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.
  
  
  
  


• Must document any information used from sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’sCiting Within Your Paper(Links to an external site.)
  


• Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. See theFormatting Your References List(Links to an external site.)resource in the Ashford Writing Center for specifications.