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 ...

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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, ...

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 ...

Bond convexity measures price sensitivity to interest rate changes in the secondary market. Positive convexity increases bond value as interest rates fall; negative does the opposite. Understanding ...

Market sentiment can be challenging to quantify, but financial analysts and traders have a powerful tool to help them gauge it: CME Group’s Volatility Index, or CVOL. This index is particularly useful ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Negative convexity is something which has been mentioned on this blog before. It sounds dramatic, not to ...

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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper investigates the nonparametric analysis of technology under non-convexity. The analysis extends two approaches now commonly used in ...

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 ...