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As there are issues with both money market funds and ultra-short term bond funds, we recommend that you chose a short - term or low - duration bond fund for this purpose.

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Some of the best and most experienced investors in the world have a habit of routinely keeping 20 % of their net assets in cash and cash equivalents, often the only truly safe place for parking these funds being a United States Treasury bond of short - duration held directly with the U.S. Treasury.

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The higher the duration of a bond or fund the higher the potential for volatility in both directions when rates move.

Characterized as an «all - weather» bond fund by Citywire, the new vehicle is designed for investors seeking both fixed income exposure as well as enhanced duration.

For individual investors, duration is primarily used as a measure of a bond fund's sensitivity to prevailing interest rates.

In a recent blog, WisdomTree, the issuer behind these funds, argued that negative - duration bond ETFs are handy for investors wanting to profit from rising rates.

Particularly good to see someone explain that the impact on bond funds is not the simplistic «1 % rise in bank rates means loss of duration %» but depends on the interest demanded at that point in the curve and normal supply / demand issues which are massively distorted for linkers.

There certainly seems to be a gap in the market for short duration inflation linked government bond tracker funds.

As yields have fallen, duration, or rate sensitivity, has risen, meaning that the risk associated with a change in rates has generally risen for most bond benchmarks and traditional funds.

For now, the Strategic Total Return Fund continues to carry a limited duration of about 2 years (meaning that a 100 basis point move in interest rates would be expected to impact the Fund by about 2 % on the basis of bond price fluctuations), mostly in Treasury Inflation Protected Securities.

Given that Treasury yields broke through levels that have been a fairly reliable barrier for several years now, it wouldn't be surprising to see bonds stage a «relief rally» here, but both yields and market action remain unfavorable overall, holding the Strategic Total Return Fund to a roughly 2 - year duration, primarily in Treasury inflation - protected securities.

Last session, Rep. Murphy filed two of TCSA's legislative priorities: HB 3018, which increased public charter school access to the Permanent School Fund (PSF) Bond Guarantee Program, and HB 1276 / HJR 85, which exempted property leased to a public charter school from ad valorem taxation for the duration of the lease.

The point is that, when including the G Fund, duration can be increased in the bond portfolio for a greater expected return yet with similar volatility.

For an example of short - duration bond funds, here are the top results for short - term bond, and ultra-short bond category funds from Fidelity's mutual fund evaluatFor an example of short - duration bond funds, here are the top results for short - term bond, and ultra-short bond category funds from Fidelity's mutual fund evaluatfor short - term bond, and ultra-short bond category funds from Fidelity's mutual fund evaluator.

For more than four years we've been reminded that when rates go up, bond prices fall — and the longer a bond fund's duration, the greater the losses will be.

* Risk free return is the return that would be obtained if invested in a govt bond for the same duration as mutual fund.

For example, if short - term rates were to rise 1 %, you would lose about 2 % on a short - term bond fund (assuming a 2 year duration), and your total return over 1 year would be about 0 % (2 % interest minus 2 % decrease in value).

With an attractive yield advantage over comparable maturity government bond mutual funds of similar duration and quality, the Fund may serve as a core holding for building diversified income portfolios.

This means that it may actually be prudent for an average investor to shorten the duration by moving a part of investment in bonds to money market funds.

If you held the bond fund for a similar ten - year period (as the duration of a single bond), the funds annual total returns tend to approximate the starting yield.

For example, core bond funds with long durations did relatively well in 2014, to a large extent because interest rates fell.

The key message for investors is to make sure your time horizon is at least as long as the duration of your bond fund.

@Jerry, I agree that today the main risk in bonds is duration risk (AKA interest - rate risk)-- last weekend's Barron's has an interview with the UBS Wealth Management top managers pointing out this means convincing investors to switch from Treasuries and investment - grade corporates to well - selected junk (HYLD is a jewel there — DO N'T go for index funds in bonds, very differently from ones in stocks they make no sense... where's the sense in wanting to lend more to companies which are more indebted?!

If you want more protection against rising rates, you can go with a short - term bond fund — for example, Vanguard Short - Term Bond index fund has a duration of just over 2.7 years — or you could split your bond stake between a total bond market and a short - term bond index fbond fund — for example, Vanguard Short - Term Bond index fund has a duration of just over 2.7 years — or you could split your bond stake between a total bond market and a short - term bond index fBond index fund has a duration of just over 2.7 years — or you could split your bond stake between a total bond market and a short - term bond index fbond stake between a total bond market and a short - term bond index fbond market and a short - term bond index fbond index fund.

These included: Victory INCORE Fund for Income (VFFIX), Nuveen Limited term Municipal Bond (FLTRX), First Trust Short Duration High Income Fund (FDHIX), Guggenheim Floating Rate Strategies (GIFIX), and Eaton Vance High Income Opportunities Fund (EIHIX).

For example, in our iShares Conservative Strategic Fixed Income ETF (XSE), we recently made a short - term tactical trade, trimming short duration exposure by half, though the fund remains modestly underweight duration versus the FTSE TMX Canada Universe Bond Index.

Honorable Mentions: The model finds Guggenheim Total Return Bond Fund (GIBIX) is a good substitute for DBLTX and Shenkman Short Duration High Income Fund (SCFIX) is a serviceable substitute for MPHZX.

If you buy bond fund shares and hold them longer than the duration of the bonds in the fund (i.e. hold a 10 year fund longer than 10 years), then you get the full coupon and maturity payments for all the bonds in the fund at that moment, exactly the same as if you bought them individually.

I've learnt recently (thanks to Investing Intelligently and Efficient Market Canada) that bond investors should keep fund duration as short as possible because longer - term bonds offer little extra return for taking a higher interest - rate risk.

For an individual bond or bond fund, this risk is captured by a measure known as duration.

Given we are looking for bonds in the 2 to 7 - year duration range, 5 - year TIPS or a 5 - year TIPS ETF (such as the fund using the symbol TDTF) would fit well in the mid-term bucket.

For fixed - income funds, the vertical axis shows the credit quality of the long bonds owned and the horizontal axis shows interest rate sensitivity as measured by a bond's effective duration.

The length of the ladder can be managed, etc. - With an active (and competent) bond fund manager you are paying for their skill in buying and selling to manage interest rate risk and duration.

And importantly, these bond funds (and their underlying bonds) may soon produce negative returns if they are not held for a sufficient duration.

But, unlike a single bond where the buyer can hold to maturity, i.e. the duration drops about one tear for each year of real time passing, a fund of treasuries will never mature, the duration will remain somewhat constant as new treasuries are purchased when others mature or new money comes in.

Read the prospectus for your fund and it will have the average duration as well as information about the issuers of the bonds it does invest in (govt, agency, mortgage backed, foreign, high quality corporate, etc) and whether there are constraints on the target average maturity.

Their main performance metric is 7 - factor hedge fund alpha, which corrects for seven risks proxied by: (1) S&P 500 Index excess return; (2) difference between Russell 2000 Index and S&P 500 Index returns; (3) 10 - year U.S. Treasury note (T - note) yield, adjusted for duration, minus 3 - month U.S. Treasury bill yield; (4) change in spread between Moody's BAA bond and T - note, adjusted for duration; and, (5 - 7) excess returns on straddle options portfolios for currencies, commodities and bonds constructed to replicate trend - following strategies in these asset classes.

However, even in this situation bond funds almost always provide a positive return (if held for their duration) because bond yields and inflation rise together.

For example, the short duration U.S. Treasury bond fund is nearly four years old and has yet to gain anywhere close to enough assets to remain viable in the long - term.

For example, a total U.S bond market index fund that tracks the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index — a good proxy for the taxable bond market overall — currently has a duration of about six yeaFor example, a total U.S bond market index fund that tracks the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index — a good proxy for the taxable bond market overall — currently has a duration of about six yebond market index fund that tracks the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index — a good proxy for the taxable bond market overall — currently has a duration of about six yeBond Index — a good proxy for the taxable bond market overall — currently has a duration of about six yeafor the taxable bond market overall — currently has a duration of about six yebond market overall — currently has a duration of about six years.

We group funds by duration, separating short - term funds from intermediate - and long - term funds, to make it easy for investors to find bond funds that have a lower duration — and thus lower interest rate risk.

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For example, TCW Total Return Bond (TGMNX), an intermediate - term corporate bond fund, has duration of 3.28 yeBond (TGMNX), an intermediate - term corporate bond fund, has duration of 3.28 yebond fund, has duration of 3.28 years.

Learn how short - duration bonds can add value to an asset allocation strategy, and discover the top five short - term bond funds for 2016.

For example, if you want to minimize risk, you should choose a short - duration, government bond fund.

I also noted that for some Vanguard bond funds, duration and maturity are not the same.

This poses downside risk for bond prices, so the Fund has been positioned in very low duration and short maturity bonds to mitigate downside risk when interest rates rise.

Actively managed bond funds have the people, data and tools for credit selection, can adjust for term structure and duration risk and have control over the timing of bond purchases and sales.

John Miller, fund manager and co-head of fixed income at Nuveen, says that the funds» performance is driven not so much by duration or yield - curve positioning, but more by yield, credit selection and bonds that have the opportunity for credit spreads to narrow over time.