Shortening the duration of your bond portfolio means you receive cash sooner than longer duration bonds and therefore you can reinvest that cash sooner at higher interest rates in an inflationary environment.

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Duration measures the amount of time until a bond matures, and longer-duration bonds fall harder when interest rates rise.

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