Still, more than once I've had clients balk at the idea of investing in bonds, offering the explanation, "They don't return as much as stocks." That's where it becomes the financial advisor's job to ...

Interest-rate sensitivity, credit risk, and exposure to the yield curve are three of the biggest factors that have an impact on a bond's price. As a measure of interest-rate sensitivity, duration ...

In a recent conference, I heard Nobel Prize winner Robert Engle talk about long term risk. To quote: A risk is a bad outcome which has some probability of occurring. A long-term risk is from an event ...

Whether you take an aggressive or conservative approach to investing, your asset allocation is likely to include some bonds. When reading about or researching bonds, you’ll hear about duration, an ...

Question: Morningstar analysts often define duration as a "measure of sensitivity to interest rates." What exactly does this mean? Answer: This is a timely question, with the Fed signaling that it ...

Duration management has been a very powerful tool in terms of generating alpha. But going forward, we think being nimble is going to give you your real edge. We think shorter-dated Treasuries can ...

For someone who has now traded bonds professionally for over 30 years, the recent behavior of the bond market has been nothing short of incredible. For those who think of the bond market as a shelter ...

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