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This paper is the first to analyze and value early exercises of Individual Investors in fixed-income investment products. Assuming decision and transaction costs we consider that a continuous decision-making on holding or exercising is not optimal anymore and propose a new approach to modeling...
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. This research assess if it is possible successfully use interest rates sensitivity arbitrage in bond portfolio (also known …, being long the first bond while shorting the second (of higher convexity) would result in a market-directional bet for …
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This study documents strong mean aversion in U.S. fixed income returns (but not stock returns) at 5-20 year horizons. These results are only slightly weaker for nominal returns than for real returns and prevail regardless of the period examined (1926-2011, 1951-2011, 1857-1925 or 1857-2011). I...
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There is an annuity puzzle in that the actual allocation by individuals to annuities is low. Longevity bonds, to hedge overall economy-wide mortality risk, have been proposed, but these bonds have challenges and the proponents have not shown how governments are hedged. This paper recommends that...
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Many bond portfolio managers argue that bond laddering tends to outperform other bond investment strategies because it … reduces both market price risk and reinvestment risk for a bond portfolio in the presence of interest rate uncertainty …. Despite the popularity of bond ladders as a strategy for managing investments in fixed-income securities, there is surprising …
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Trading and investment strategies play an essential part in better understanding fixed income markets. Over-the-counter markets and thousands of different outstanding bonds increase the difficulties to identify adequate comparison methods. Market participants and their practices differ widely...
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in price dispersion. TRACE-associated decreases in crossfund bond mark dispersion provide indirect support for …
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been performed in our recent working paper [5],"Enhancement of the Fisher-Weil bond technique immunization". So it is seen … curve ; Bond portfolio ; immunization ; optimization ; linearization …
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there is no clear common sense for that. Our main purpose in this paper is to present how the classical Fisher-Weil bond … change approximation and the associated bond hedging technique can be enhanced, such that we are able to solve simultaneously … these two issues. The good approximation of the bond or portfolio change we derive, allows to get an interesting consequence …
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stochastic interest rate models. We also consider forward rates which are implied by stochastic bond prices. We highlight to … major drawbacks of the commonly used stochastic models. The first drawback is the theoretical possibility that bond admits … rate in such a way that it would be consistent with deterministic definition of the bond while some popular are not. In the …
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