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Mastering Python for Finance
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Mastering Python for Finance

by James Ma Weiming
April 2015
Intermediate to advanced
340 pages
7h 21m
English
Packt Publishing
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Bond convexity

Convexity is the sensitivity measure of the duration of a bond to yield changes. Think of convexity as the second derivative of the relationship between the price and yield:

Bond convexity

Bond traders use convexity as a risk management tool to measure the amount of market risk in their portfolio. Higher convexity portfolios are less affected by interest rate volatilities than lower convexity portfolio, given the same bond duration and yield. As such, higher convexity bonds are more expensive than lower convexity ones, everything else being equal.

The implementation of a bond convexity is given as follows:

""" Calculate convexity of a bond """ from ...
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