The Pain Of Being Short Duration - A Guide To What Holding Short-Maturity Bonds May Have Cost You Over The Last Few Years Feb. 06, 2017 5:34 PM ET SHV , SHY , IEI , IEF , TLT , TLH 10 Comments ...

SPDR Portfolio Short Term Corporate Bond ETF offers exposure to short-maturity investment-grade corporate bonds. Learn why ...

Key rate duration measures a bond's sensitivity to shifts in interest rates at specific maturity points along the yield curve. Unlike traditional duration metrics, which assume parallel interest ...

Duration itself is a slightly more sophisticated way of looking at maturity than just measuring the years until a bond comes due. There are many different kinds of bonds, but to understand the ...

The Indian central bank's attempt to create a market for separate trading of principal and interest for state government debt may be dampened by rules on the duration of bonds eligible for such ...

The ultra-low duration ETFs are gaining a lot of traction right now, mainly because there are many near retirement looking for a safe place to store their funds during this bout of volatility.

So, if you have a bond with a 4% yield to maturity and a duration of 8.0 years, your total return after eight years will be an annualized 4% regardless of what happens to interest rates in the ...

Example Example of how to use modified duration. Let's suppose you have a bond with a face value of $1,000 that matures in three years. This bond has an annual coupon rate (the yield paid through ...

The average time to maturity for high-yield debt has fallen to just 5.18 years — the shortest it’s been since Bloomberg started tracking its high-yield corporate index in 1987.