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Inside the Yield Book: The Classic That Created the Science of Bond Analysis, 3rd Edition
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Inside the Yield Book: The Classic That Created the Science of Bond Analysis, 3rd Edition

by Martin L. Leibowitz, Anthony Bova, Stanley Kogelman, Sidney Homer
April 2013
Beginner to intermediate
368 pages
8h 22m
English
Bloomberg Press
Content preview from Inside the Yield Book: The Classic That Created the Science of Bond Analysis, 3rd Edition

Chapter 5

Laddered Portfolio Convergence to Yield

Introduction

In the preceding chapter, we showed that both the Barclays Government/Credit index and its government and corporate sectors exhibit convergence properties that are consistent with an implicit duration-targeting (DT) strategy. In this chapter, we analyze the so-called laddered portfolios that commonly are used by individual investors.

Buyers of laddered portfolios appreciate the simplicity of the structure and the predictability of the principal repayments. For example, a 10-year zero-coupon bond ladder would be composed of equally weighted and equally spaced bonds with maturities of 1 to 10 years. Because the duration of zero-coupon bonds is the same as the maturity, this laddered ...

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