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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 ...

Explore how convertible bond valuation differs from traditional bonds, and the unique factors that influence the valuation of ...

In November, my colleague Eric Jacobson published a Fund Spy article entitled "Bond Duration: An Art, Not a Science." In it, Jacobson listed the imperfections of duration as the predictor of how a ...

Discover coupon stripping, which involves separating a bond's interest payments from the principal, turning them into individual securities called strip bonds.

Most investors reach for a broad, market-value-weighted bond fund to fill the bond portion of their portfolio. While no weighting approach is perfect, market-value weighting often provides the most ...

Investing can be filled with a lot of industry jargon. Par value is a term you may hear in relation to the value of a bond or share of stock. In this instance, we are concerned with the par value of ...