A US FI Is Raising All of Its $20 Million Liabilities

Multiple Choice

A U.S. FI is raising all of its $20 million liabilities in dollars (one-year CDs) but investing 50 percent in U.S. dollar assets (one-year maturity loans) and 50 percent in U.K. pound sterling assets (one-year maturity loans) . Suppose the promised one-year U.S. CD rate is 9 percent, to be paid in dollars at the end of the year, and that one-year, credit risk-free loans in the United States are yielding only 10 percent. Credit risk-free one-year loans are yielding 16 percent in the United Kingdom.
-The weighted return on the bank's portfolio of investments would be

A) 15%.
B) 12%.
C) 16%.
D) 13%.
E) 7%.