Mary Smith is the owner of US Global has decided to expand company operations. Mary has instructed a newly hired financi

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Mary Smith is the owner of US Global has decided to expand
company operations. Mary has instructed a newly hired financial
analyst, Tina Tate, to enlist an underwriter from an investment
bank to help sell $35 million in new 10-year bonds to finance
construction and future growth for US Global. Tina Tate has entered
into discussions with Tony Tuttle, an underwriter from the
Investment Bank of Crete about which bond features. US Global
should consider what the coupon rates the bond issue will likely
have.
Although Tina Tate is aware of the bond features, she is
uncertain about the costs and benefits of some features. Tina
isn't sure how each feature would affect the coupon rate of the
bond issue. Tony Tuttle is writing a memo to Tina Tate describing
the effects of each of the following bond features on the coupon
rate of the bond, including the advantages and disadvantages of
each feature.
As Tony Tuttle, you will write a memo to Tina Tate at
US Global, answering each of the following questions about a
potential bond issue for US Global. These should be answered in
paragraph format within the memo and not answered directly as a
question:
The security of the bond - that is, whether the bond has
collateral and how this would affect the coupon rate.