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 ...

In November, my colleague Eric Jacobson published a Fund Spy article entitled "Bond Duration: An Art, Not a Science." In it, Jacobson listed the imperfections of duration as the predictor of how a ...

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 ...

Emerging markets bonds continue to outperform developed markets bonds, and could continue to benefit from positive secular tailwinds in the long run. In May, the VanEck Emerging Markets Bond Fund ...

Markets are steadily preparing for the Federal Reserve to begin cutting interest rates in the coming months. Recent analysis from Invesco chief global market strategist Kristina Hooper evaluated how ...

Interest rates and bond prices exhibit an inverse relationship: when interest rates increase, bond prices decrease, and when rates decrease, bond prices increase. This occurs because newly issued ...