In many ways, bonds are more complex than stocks. Investors use a host of different metrics to evaluate bond investments, and one involves a concept known as duration, which helps an investor ...

Choosing debt funds in a rising interest rate environment is not easy, as rising rates lead to declines in bond prices. Make the wrong choice of duration and you can easily face capital erosion on ...

The European Banking Authority published final Guidelines on the correction required for the calculation of Modified Duration for debt instruments subject to prepayment risk under the Capital ...

Modified duration has played an important part in the Carmignac Portfolio Unconstrained Global Bond fund ever since it was launched, and over the past 18 months in particular. In S1 2016, the fund's ...

All mutual fund (MF) schemes, in debt or in the equity category, carry risk. But how can one measure a scheme’s risk to see if it matches with one’s expectations? Investors should keep in mind that ...

A bond’s price is affected by various factors like credit quality of the issuer, callability of the bond, coupon rate, and maturity. Duration, in effect, takes into account all these factors while ...

When professional investors discuss the credit market, a term that often arises is duration, which is used to measure the sensitivity of a bond’s trading price to changes in interest rates ...

A recent action by RBI on the interest rates has caused havoc in the debt market. There are funds which has less impacted and some are more. From a layman investors view selecting a debt fund becomes ...

A recent action by RBI on the interest rates has caused havoc in the debt market. There are funds which has less impacted and some are more. From a layman investors view selecting a debt fund becomes ...