Duration and Convexity [Concepts Series]

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Duration is a fundamental financial concept, but it’s more part of the fixed income investor toolkit than the equity investors’. For reasons I’ll get into, duration is usually a misleading concept for equity investors, but there are a few cases where that’s changing.

Duration in bond investing refers to two different measures, which are…