Sentences with phrase «lower average duration»

A fund with a lower average duration would be a much better pick.

To reduce your portfolio's sensitivity to rising interest rates you want to lower the average duration of your holdings.

Many investment managers have lowered the average duration of their fixed - income investments well below that of the overall bond market.

Not exact matches

Growth was more than 1 percentage point lower relative to normal periods, and the average duration of the overhang was 23 years.

These periods have been shorter in duration (average half a year) and seen slightly smaller rate moves, a reflection of the low inflation and low interest rate environment over the past 20 years.

The average total duration of investigations and operations, including the assessment phase, was 27.9 months, a five - year low.

In overweight or obese subjects, IER (60 - 85 % ER / alternate days) have been shown to produce an average weight loss of between -5 and -8 % body - weight in studies of four to 12 weeks duration with the degree of weight - loss seemingly correlated to the length of the intervention.37, 38, 40, 45 - 47, 49 - 52 Weight - loss is accompanied by reductions in whole - body adiposity 37, 38, 40, 45 - 47, 49 - 52, waist circumference39, 40, 43, 45 and favourable shifts in adipokine expression encompassing lowered circulating levels of TNF - a 37, IL - 6 37, resistin 39, 49 and augmented adiponectin expression 39, consistent with favourable modulations in adipose function.

As a low duration strategy, the Fund offers limited interest - rate risk, as its average duration will not exceed three years.

As you can see, the barbell ETFs are almost identical in yield to maturity, similar or lower in average term to maturity, and significantly shorter in duration.

With a current duration of 4.85 (Morningstar category average: Investment Grade Bonds, 6/18/2015), the typical bond fund is very susceptible to capital losses should interest rates rise from their current low of 2.35 % to the historical average over the last 30 years of 5.44 %.

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).

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.

[1] CO2 absorbs IR, is the main GHG, human emissions are increasing its concentration in the atmosphere, raising temperatures globally; the second GHG, water vapor, exists in equilibrium with water / ice, would precipitate out if not for the CO2, so acts as a feedback; since the oceans cover so much of the planet, water is a large positive feedback; melting snow and ice as the atmosphere warms decreases albedo, another positive feedback, biased toward the poles, which gives larger polar warming than the global average; decreasing the temperature gradient from the equator to the poles is reducing the driving forces for the jetstream; the jetstream's meanders are increasing in amplitude and slowing, just like the lower Missippi River where its driving gradient decreases; the larger slower meanders increase the amplitude and duration of blocking highs, increasing drought and extreme temperatures — and 30,000 + Europeans and 5,000 plus Russians die, and the US corn crop, Russian wheat crop, and Aussie wildland fire protection fails — or extreme rainfall floods the US, France, Pakistan, Thailand (driving up prices for disk drives — hows that for unexpected adverse impacts from AGW?)

The report finds that the average frequency and duration of a low wind event of 20MW or less between November 2008 and December 2010 was once every 6.38 days for a period of 4.93 hours.

Under these relatively conservative assumptions, this level and duration of mercury exposure is not likely to be dangerous, as it is lower than the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standard of 0.05 mg / m3 of metallic mercury vapor averaged over eight hours.