The Macro View

Don’t Confuse Maturity With Duration

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Owning a Portfolio of Actively Managed Individual Bonds will be Critical in a Rising Rate Environment For advisors that allocate to fixed income (and we assume that to be most), the days of simply buying bond mutual funds/ETFs and having them sit essentially unmanaged in client portfolios are quickly coming to an end. Rising interest… Read more »


Exactly Which Interest Rates Are Rising?

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By now, we are sure you have heard someone in the financial industry declare that, “interest rates are rising.” We believe the proper response to that statement should be: What interest rates are rising? In the fixed income world, the two most common reference points for interest rates are (1) the federal funds rate, and… Read more »