When professional investors discuss the credit market, a term that often arises is duration, which is used to measure the sensitivity of a bond’s trading price to changes in interest rates ...
In November, my colleague Eric Jacobson published a Fund Spy article entitled "Bond Duration: An Art, Not a Science." In it, Jacobson listed the imperfections of duration as the predictor of how a ...
After raising short-term interest rates since March 2022, the Federal Reserve has started easing monetary policy with a 50-basis-point rate cut in September 2024 and a 25-basis-point rate cut on Nov.
Fixed income investors don't have to venture too far out onto the yield curve in order to extract yield. They can do so with short-term corporate bond funds that minimize duration risk. One prominent ...
The iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF offers easy access to long-duration U.S. government bonds, providing diversification and a historically strong credit profile for income-focused investors.