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After raising short-term interest rates since March 2022, the Federal Reserve has started easing monetary policy with a 50-basis-point rate cut in September 2024 and a 25-basis-point rate cut on Nov.

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 ...

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 ...

The iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF (IEF) is a way to get exposure to duration now that rates, both inflation and interest, seem to be on track to peaking. However, the debt ceiling crisis is a ...

What Are Duration and Convexity? Duration and convexity are two tools used to manage the risk exposure of fixed-income investments. Duration measures the bond's sensitivity to interest rate changes.

As interest rates begin to soften, fixed income investors are increasingly revisiting the role of bond duration in shaping portfolio returns. In an insightful conversation, Gautam Kaul, Senior Fund ...