We have been convinced through our research that the purpose of risk management is to use all tools available in the markets to create more robust portfolios that can survive major shocks. In a recent ...

James Chen, CMT is an expert trader, investment adviser, and global market strategist. Cierra Murry is an expert in banking, credit cards, investing, loans, mortgages, and real estate. She is a ...

Bonds are popular fixed income investment instruments and are often regarded as bearing relatively low-risk burdens. While bonds are less volatile than other investments, they are not risk-free, ...

Why do portfolio durations and key rate durations differ? Portfolio durations differ from key rate durations, as even though the durations of two portfolios may match, both portfolios may differ in ...

Bond convexity is a measure of the relationship between a bond’s price and interest rates. It is used to assess the impact that a rise or fall in interest rates can have on a bond’s price – which ...

CVOL is a suite of implied volatility indices measuring 30-day forward volatility across all option strike prices of key futures markets. It’s based on a simple variance methodology to measure the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Every so often Chris Cole, of Artemis Capital, perhaps one of the deepest and most provocative thinkers in the ...

Duration is the primary measure of interest rate sensitivity — it is the percentage change in price for a 1% change in interest rates. However, practitioners also look at convexity, which is the ...

As bond yields rise and fall past certain levels, there are episodes of highly technical yet increasingly familiar flows that can accelerate moves in either direction. Analysts and traders use terms ...