Callable bonds are a type of bond that the issuer can “call” or redeem before the maturity date. The specifics vary from bond to bond, but callable bonds always have one thing in common — the issuer ...

When companies and governments issue bonds, they do so with a specific maturity date attached to the bond. For example, a five-year corporate bond will pay interest for five years before it’s ...

One of us had a professor who would say, “When it comes to math, I’m slow, but I’m inaccurate.” That shortcoming can be a problem for understanding convexity in many parts of the fixed income markets, ...

Convexity, which measures interest rate sensitivity and drives the risk and return profiles of fixed income products, is an important concept that investors can utilize to boost total return and ...