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 ...

Fixed-income investing doesn’t have the same glamour and round-the-clock news coverage as stock investing. There’s no such thing as a “meme bond.” Regardless, bonds are a crucial component of a ...

Bond duration describes the average time period before all the cash flows are received from a bond. Most importantly, it defines how the bond's price will change with increases or decreases in ...

MBS went through an interesting Employment Friday. I know it’s hard to remember back after a long weekend (especially for N.E. fans), but the bond market sold off pretty substantially on Friday after ...

A version of this article was published in the November 2015 issue of Morningstar ETFInvestor. Download a complimentary copy of ETFInvestor here. Flaw of Averages Duration, by itself, is a crude ...

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 ...

One of the safest investments available is the Series EE savings bond, issued by the U.S. government. Though savings bonds have a low rate of return, there are few investments that guarantee doubling ...

The new era of higher interest rates has reignited a long-smoldering Wall Street debate: Is it better for ordinary investors to buy individual bonds outright? Or shares of bond mutual funds? During ...

The iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF offers easy access to long-duration U.S. government bonds, providing diversification and a historically strong credit profile for income-focused investors.