Still, more than once I've had clients balk at the idea of investing in bonds, offering the explanation, "They don't return as much as stocks." That's where it becomes the financial advisor's job to ...

Bond prices are sensitive to interest rate changes, and bond duration is a measure of just how sensitive. For instance, in Exhibit 1.1 (shown in my last article), an increase in interest rates for the ...

Interest-rate sensitivity, credit risk, and exposure to the yield curve are three of the biggest factors that have an impact on a bond's price. As a measure of interest-rate sensitivity, duration ...

Modified duration shows bond price sensitivity to yield changes; a 1.859% price change per 1% yield shift. Macauley duration measures average time to receive bond cash flows, key for calculating ...

For someone who has now traded bonds professionally for over 30 years, the recent behavior of the bond market has been nothing short of incredible. For those who think of the bond market as a shelter ...

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In July, Duration Capital Partners completed its spinoff from Oaktree Capital Management. Duration is investing in transportation, logistics and infrastructure. PE Hub spoke with co-CEO’s Emmett ...