It has a duration (rate sensitivity) of 15 years, to 11 for the bond.
For instance, a mutual fund with a duration of 12 will drop approximately 12% for every 1% rise in interest rates.
It was a duration of playing time that doubled the previous record and sports fans were glued to every serve, every volley.
For example, a bond fund with a duration of 5 years can expect to decrease in value 10% if interest rates increase 2%.
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All Yemenis over the age of 18 will have a chance to select Mr. Hadi for a two-year term, a duration stipulated by the power-transfer agreement.
In 1994, those bonds that had had a duration of 20 suddenly had a duration of 40, and a price far below that which investors had paid.
It's an integral part of a plan announced by European Central Bank President Mario Draghi last week to buy bonds with a duration of between one and three years.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average has experienced around 20 bear markets, averaging a duration of one and a half years from top to bottom, says James Stack, president of InvesTech Research, a US-based market tracking firm.
There were also discussions of entitlement reforms and tax reforms, balancing of revenue and other measures, cuts and revenues, that obviously did not take effect immediately and relied on a duration, on triggers, and that sort of thing.
In addition, the IOF rate on non-resident investment in long-term corporate bonds with a duration over four years is being reduced from 6% to zero, with the goal of stimulating private long-term investment and financing, the government said in a press release on Friday morning.
Altfest is advising his clients to keep maturities short, buy mortgage-backed securities yielding 6% to 8% and move into international funds such as the Templeton Global Bond Fund, which has a five-year average annual return of 10.9%, net of fees, and a duration of 3.3 years.
This kind of doublespeak became more and more troubling, and my career came to an end over a job involving revising a manuscript supporting the use of a drug for attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), with a duration of action that fell between that of shorter- and longer-acting formulations.
Also, mortgages have a duration (a calculation of the time it takes to get paid back) that is a variable, hypothetical duration that varies with prepayment speeds, so a short duration mortgage portfolio is not protection against a sudden increase in interest rates, because if interest rates rise the duration will rise which hurts the value of the bond.
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It needed a shorter duration, and a larger size to be effective.
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Yet Kidd, the future Hall of Famer, was on the court for a longer duration in crunch time.
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The picture and sound quality of Beta was superior to VHS, Betaphiles say, although VHS tapes had a longer duration.
And so actually, the same bond that is at 4% has a longer duration than the same bond at 2%.
The commander of the British troops, Brigadier Barney White-Spunner, said the mission had a clear objective and a finite duration.
The Quattro was a huge hit at the Basel show, despite its having a winding duration one day shorter than Patek's.
Chironis frequently sold one bond and replaced it with a bond issued by a similar issuer and offering a similar yield over a similar duration.
These funds offer a little bit higher yield, and a little lower duration so they offer a little more protection in case interest rates were to rise.
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But the Tranquility Module also is going to serve as a gym, as a hygiene area, as a place a crew can maintain themselves for a long duration.
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If rates start rising and you have a high duration bond fund, the more likely you are to suffer losses in that bond fund, or age-based 529 college savings account.
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For the Space Shuttle, being a shorter-duration flight of just a couple of weeks, we still train for over one year just specifically on the task that we'll accomplish on our mission.
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And a long duration living and working in space is what the Space Station is all about -- to do the research and the science necessary to take us beyond Earth orbit.
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But Morningstar and other research firms caution that anyone planning to hang on to Facebook for a longer duration might want to step back from that frenzy and give the deal some thought.
O'NEILL: The president said from the very beginning in all that we do we should put compassion first and it's a compassionate thing to recognize that people may have a longer duration of unemployment.
When opting for one of the foreign languages, the student has from three months to one year to complete the program, divided in three modules (Basic, Professional and Regional), with a total duration of 80 hours.
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