The «Starting Average Duration» (i.e. the starting average duration in the tool above) is
the average duration of the portfolio.
His suggestion is that
the average duration of the portfolio, the average term, should, «reflect — at least to some degree — the time at which you anticipate spending the money.»
Not exact matches
To reduce your
portfolio's sensitivity to rising interest rates you want to lower the
average duration of your holdings.
The fund seeks to maintain an
average portfolio duration of zero to ten years.
AM: One can measure interest rate risk by looking at «
Average Maturity» or «Modified
Duration»
of the
portfolio.
The fund currently has an
average maturity
of 0.97 years and
duration of 0.83 years but at times
of a favorable interest - rate scenario, it may increase the
portfolio maturity little above one year, keeping in mind the safety and liquidity.
The Fund's principal investment strategies emphasize strategic management
of the
average interest rate sensitivity («
duration»)
of portfolio holdings, the Fund's exposure to changes in the yield curve, and allocation among fixed income alternatives and inflation hedges.
The fund holds debt with maturities ranging from one to five years, giving the
portfolio an
average weighted maturity
of 2.9 years and a
duration of 2.7 years.
The management cost is 0.4 %, compared with an
average of 0.8 % for similar funds, and the
portfolio duration is 4.2.
In the construction
of the S&P U.S. High Yield Low Volatility Corporate Bond Index, an individual bond's credit risk in a
portfolio context is measured by its marginal contribution to risk (MCR), calculated as the product
of its spread
duration and the difference between the bond's option adjusted spread (OAS) and the spread -
duration - adjusted
portfolio average OAS (see Equation 1).
MCR borrows the concept
of DTS by multiplying spread
duration by the difference between bond OAS and
portfolio average OAS, instead
of OAS directly.
In order to address interest rate sensitivity in a low rate environment, many investors will reduce the
average duration of their bond
portfolios by moving to shorter maturities.
Prior to 8/19/13, Fund employed a strategy
of investing in fixed - rate bonds with a dollar - weighted
average portfolio duration of between three and nine years.
The investment manager for the stable value fund invests in a
portfolio of intermediate term bonds with an
average duration of approximately three to four years that will provide a significantly higher interest rate, or yield, than for example the short - term (
average 60 days or less) securities typically held by a money market fund.
Note also that the
average bond
duration for these fixed income funds will influence their rates
of portfolio turnover.
Note also that the
average bond
duration for these bond funds will influence their rates
of portfolio turnover.
Bond
duration is the weighted
average of the expected cash flows for the bonds in the
portfolio.
In addition, we continued enhancing our conservative balance sheet with the August $ 1.3 billion senior unsecured notes tender and $ 900 million notes issuance, extending the
duration of our senior notes
portfolio while decreasing the weighted
average interest.»