Bond Ladders Explained: How to Build a Treasury Ladder
Learn how bond ladders work, how to build a Treasury ladder for steady cash flow, and how laddering balances interest rate risk and reinvestment risk.
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Treasury Floating Rate Notes: How Index Rates and Spreads Work
Learn how Treasury Floating Rate Notes (FRNs) work, how their weekly index rate and fixed spread are determined, and why they carry near-zero duration.
How Adjustable-Rate Mortgages Work: Resets, Caps, and SOFR
Learn how adjustable-rate mortgages work: the SOFR reference index, lender margins, 2/2/5 cap structures, and exact reset payment math.
Bond Duration and Convexity Explained: How Prices Move
Duration tells you how much a bond’s price will move for a 1% change in yields. Convexity refines the estimate for big moves. Here’s how both actually work.
Bond Duration and Convexity Explained
Duration measures a bond’s price move per 1% yield change; convexity is the correction that matters when rates move a lot. The math, with examples.
Bond Duration and Convexity Explained (With Examples)
Bond duration and convexity in plain English: what they measure, the formulas that matter, worked examples on real Treasury yields, and the traps that catch retail investors.
Bond Duration and Convexity Explained: Why Prices Fall
Duration tells you how much a bond’s price moves when yields shift 1%. Convexity tells you how much duration is lying. Formulas, example, traps.
Bond Duration and Convexity: How Prices Move with Yields
Duration measures bond price sensitivity to yield changes; convexity corrects the curve. Formulas, a worked example, and a snapshot table.
Bond Duration Explained: Why a 1% Rate Move Wrecks Long Bonds
Duration is the single number that explains why a 30-year Treasury can lose roughly 16% in a year when yields rise 1%. Here is how it works, with current data.
Bond Convexity Explained: Why Duration Isn’t Enough
Duration is a tangent line; convexity is the curvature. Here is the formula, a worked 10-year Treasury example, and why MBS has negative convexity.