Effective Duration - This statistic provides a measure of the sensitivity of the Fund's price to changes in interest rate changes and is calculated as the weighted average of
the individual bond durations.
Not exact matches
It's a bit involved: you have to take the present value of each of the
bond's cash flows, divide each by the total present value of all the cash flows, and then add up all of these
individual durations to get the total
duration of the
bond.
You're still dealing with all of the same
bond risks as every other investor when you buy
individual bonds — interest rate risk, credit risk, inflation risk,
duration risk, default risk, etc..
A
bond allocation comprised primarily of
individual bonds provides much more flexibility as it relates to
duration management and tax efficiency.
As I have covered previously, when you own an
individual bond, you invest for a set period of time and get paid interest for the
duration or maturity length of the
bond.
With respect to
individual bonds, for example, a
duration of 4 years indicates that the price of a
bond will rise / fall by approximately 4 % if rates in general fall / rise by 1 %.
For
individual investors,
duration is primarily used as a measure of a
bond fund's sensitivity to prevailing interest rates.
With those options eliminated, you have a few choices left: buying
individual bonds or certificates of deposit (CDs) with
durations of less than three years, putting your money in a money market fund, or using a savings account.
For an
individual bond or
bond fund, this risk is captured by a measure known as
duration.
If you are looking to add
bond exposure to your portfolio, there are a few questions you have to answer first: what kind of
bonds are you looking to add, what
duration are you targeting, and will you be purchasing
individual bonds or a bundle of
bonds through
bond mutual fund or ETFs?
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
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
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
bond's option adjusted spread (OAS) and the spread -
duration - adjusted portfolio average OAS (see Equation 1).
As part of your instructor training you'll get a chance to interact with the course participants, like - minded
individuals who you are sure to
bond with over the
duration of the course.
The Peace
Bond has a 12 month
duration and can be customized to address issues specific to the
individual but will most commonly prohibit contact with the complainant (except again with his / her prior written revocable consent) and will prohibit the accused from being in possession of any weapons.