Between rising interest rates and the bond price declines of late, this seems like a good time to review some facts about bonds. After all, we all own bonds as part of a solid asset allocation we ...

Duration can provide guidance, but not certainty. 1. Duration is an estimate. It's designed to help you gauge how much a bond's price is likely to rise or fall given a sudden change in market yields.

Bond prices are sensitive to interest rate changes, and bond duration is a measure of just how sensitive. For instance, in Exhibit 1.1 (shown in my last article), an increase in interest rates for ...

Duration may be a better tool for investors choosing mutual or exchange-traded funds that seek to mimic specific bond indexes. Such passively managed funds are likely to have fewer variables than ...

BOND has nearly doubled its AUM to $5.5 billion in the past two years. Click here to read why we are still a Buy for BOND ETF ...

David Sherman of CrossingBridge Advisors explained how investors can use bond funds with varying durations to generate high ...

While duration is measured in years, the most useful application of duration is that it represents a bond’s approximate percentage price change for a 100-basis point change in market rates.

Some of the best periods to add duration have historically been around the time short-term rates peak, ... Bond Duration Could Be an Investor’s New Best Friend. By . Lara Castleton.

In fact, at the recent peak, Pimco's long-bond ETF , the longest-duration bond ETF on Wall Street, was up 8% while the S&P's peak closing low so far was -8.5%.