Duration is
a measure of a bond portfolio's sensitivity to changing interest rates.
Not exact matches
«It is a terrible mistake for investors with long - term horizons... to
measure their investment «risk» by their
portfolio's ratio
of bonds to stocks,» Buffett wrote in the February 24 letter.
Duration, the most commonly used
measure of bond risk, quantifies the effect
of changes in interest rates on the price
of a
bond or
bond portfolio.
Each month, Palhares and Richardson sorted corporate
bonds into quintiles based on each liquidity
measure and computed the return
of a long / short
portfolio that buys the least liquid
bonds (i.e., smaller issue sizes, higher bid / ask spreads, lower trading volume, higher price impact or higher frequency
of zero - trading days) and sells the most liquid
bonds (i.e., larger issue sizes, smaller bid / ask spreads, higher trading volume, lower price impact or lower frequency
of zero - trading days).
Investors use duration to
measure the volatility
of the
bond or a
bond portfolio.
It is a terrible mistake for investors with long - term horizons — among them, pension funds, college endowments and savings - minded individuals — to
measure their investment «risk» by their
portfolio's ratio
of bonds to stocks.
Although, when we look at what may be the holy grail
of diversification,
measured by the risk adjusted return
of a
portfolio when commodities are added to stocks and
bonds, the DJCI comes out slightly ahead.
From 1980 through 2017, a theoretical index
portfolio with equal amounts
of Canadian
bonds, Canadian stocks, U.S. stocks and international stocks returned 10.3 % annually with a standard deviation — a
measure of volatility —
of 11.6 %.
Most indices are parts
of families
of broader indices that can be used to
measure global
bond portfolios, or may be further subdivided by maturity or sector for managing specialized
portfolios.
An index is a statistical
measure of a
portfolio of stocks or
bonds representing a particular market or a portion
of it.
Each month, Palhares and Richardson sorted corporate
bonds into quintiles based on each liquidity
measure and computed the return
of a long / short
portfolio that buys the least liquid
bonds (i.e., smaller issue sizes, higher bid / ask spreads, lower trading volume, higher price impact or higher frequency
of zero - trading days) and sells the most liquid
bonds (i.e., larger issue sizes, smaller bid / ask spreads, higher trading volume, lower price impact or lower frequency
of zero - trading days).
For example, given that the price return
of a
bond is determined by the
bond's duration and yield change, a
bond portfolio constructed using the volatility
measure of standard deviation
of price return could be biased toward
bonds with short duration.
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).
Second, using the simple
measure of price return volatility to construct a low volatility
bond portfolio could introduce unintended bias.
Duration
measures the sensitivity
of a
bond portfolio to a change in interest rates.
This definition allows for
measuring the incremental contribution
of each
bond to the
portfolio credit risk within the framework
of duration times spread (DTS).
Duration, which
measures the sensitivity
of bonds within a
portfolio to interest rates, recently exceeded six years in the Index for the first time since 1978.
An option - adjusted
measure of a
bond's (or
portfolio's) sensitivity to changes in interest rates calculated as the average percentage change in a
bond's value (price plus accrued interest) under shifts
of the Treasury curve + / - 100 bps.
The AssetBuilder (AB) constructed
portfolios — Model Portfolios — have been developed based on historical performance of the standard asset classes (stocks, bonds and cash) and of representative market index fund
portfolios — Model
Portfolios — have been developed based on historical performance of the standard asset classes (stocks, bonds and cash) and of representative market index fund
Portfolios — have been developed based on historical performance
of the standard asset classes (stocks,
bonds and cash) and
of representative market index fund
measures.
When natural resources are added to a
portfolio of stocks and
bonds, the Sharpe Ratio, a
measure of risk - adjusted return, falls from the poor performance.
Right now, the overall
bond market in Canada (as measured by the FTSE TMX Canada Universe Bond Index) is yielding 2 %, so that's your baseline for the safe portion of your portfolio for the next 10 ye
bond market in Canada (as
measured by the FTSE TMX Canada Universe
Bond Index) is yielding 2 %, so that's your baseline for the safe portion of your portfolio for the next 10 ye
Bond Index) is yielding 2 %, so that's your baseline for the safe portion
of your
portfolio for the next 10 years.
Your
bonds are now down from 100 %
of your
portfolio to 12 %, and the amount
of risk (
measured in standard deviation) has increased about three fold.
Adjust
portfolios over economic and market cycles One
of the best times to own high - yield
bonds is during the expansion phase
of an economic cycle, when financial
measures are increasing along with consumer confidence.
The BH&J Index
measures the relationship between purchasing property and building wealth through a buildup in equity versus renting a comparable property and investing in a
portfolio of stocks and
bonds.