R43: UNDERSTANDING FIXED-INCOME RISK AND RETURN

1. Sources of returns, Durations

3. Interest rate risk, Money Durations

2. Convexity & Yield Volatility

3 Sources of returns

Reinvestment from coupon

Gain/loss if sold prior to maturity

Coupon + Principal

Credit risk

Interest rate risk

Interest rate risk

Carrying value vs
Selling Price of the bond

Interest rate risks

Reinvestment risk (Interest rate tăng ≈ Reinvestment income)

Market price risk YTM ( interest rate tăng => Capital loss)

Scenario

Interest rates increase => Buy & Hold

Interest rates decrease => Short-term trade

Interest rates unchange

Duration
(cmt)

Modified duration

Money duration

Macaulay Duration

Effective duration

đơn vị là ngày/tháng/năm/period

ModDur = MacDur/(1+YTM)
=> %∆PVFull ≈ –ModDur× ΔYield
=> change 1bp thì x% change in PV full (giá của bond)
(Nhớ có dấu trừ => thể hiện tính ngược chiều)

Approximate Modified duration

For embedded-option bonds

Bởi vì uncertain CF => dẫn đến uncertain YTM => Không dùng YTM được mà phải dùng đến benchmark

Key rate duration

Bond’s maturity, coupon, and yield level affect its interest rate risk

Macaulay and Modified duration is an adequate measure of bond price risk only for parallel shifts in the yield curve.


For nonparallel shifts in the yield curve, we must use Key rate duration to measure the interest rate risk of the bond.

Effect of the fraction of the coupon period (t/T):

The Macaulay duration declines smoothly and then jumps upward after the coupon is paid.

Effect of other properties of bond duration

Effect of time-to-maturity on interest rate risk

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Effect of coupon rate on interest rate risk

Generally, for the same coupon rate, a longer-term bond has a greater higher durationmore interest rate risk than a shorter-term bond when their yields-to-maturity change by the same amount.

The exception is for the longer-term discount bond (interest rate risk may be less than a short-term bond) and perpetuity bond (interest rate risk is constant over time to maturity)

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All else being equal, a lower-coupon bond has a higher duration and more interest rate risk than a higher-coupon bond.

Effect of yield-to-maturity on interest rate risk

All other things remaining the same, a lower yield-to-maturity bond has higher duration and more interest rate risk than a higher yield-to- maturity bond.

Interest rate risk characteristics of an embedded option bond

Value of a noncallable bond = Value of a callable bond + Value of the embedded call option


call option favors the issuer nên họ pay less

Value of a non-putable bond = Value of a putable bond - Value of the embedded put option


put option favors the investors nên họ phải pay more

The presence of an embedded option (be it a call or a put) reduces the duration of the bond and makes it less sensitive to changes in the benchmark yield curve, assuming there is no change in credit risk

Duration of a portfolio &
Limitations of portfolio duration

Limitations of portfolio duration

Calculation

the weighted average of the individual bond durations that comprise the portfolio.


=> MacDur of portfolio = w1D1 + w2D2 +...+ wNDN

This measure of duration assumes a parallel change in the yield curve → this is not accurate in practice because portfolios of bonds are composed of a variety of bonds that may have different maturities, credit risks, and embedded options.

Money duration

MoneyDur = annual ModDur × PVFull


∆PVFull = – MoneyDur × ∆Yield

is a measure of the price change in units of the currency in which the bond is denominated.

Price value of a basis point (PVBP)

estimates the change in the full price of a bond in response to a 1 bps change in its YTM ≈ 0.01%

PVBP = (PV− − PV+) / 2

Bond convexity

Money convexity

MoneyCon = AnnConvexity x PVfull

b. Estimate the price change using money convexity

Factors that affect convexity

%∆PVfull ≈ −AnnModDur x ∆Yield + [1 x AnnConvexity x (∆Yield)]^2 (Nó cộng thêm 1 cái premium khác ở bên phải)


ApproxCon= {(PV_) + (PV+) −[2x PV0]} / [(∆Yield)2 x PV0]

Term-to-maturity ↑ ↑

Coupon rate ↓ ↑

YTM ↓ ↑

Dispersion of cash flow ↑↑

Trái phiếu càng lồi sẽ càng outperform trái phiếu ít lồi trong cả thị trường bull hoặc bear.

Effective convexity

Term structure of yield volatility
(Cấu trúc kỳ hạn => so sánh giữa kỳ hạn dài vs kỳ hạn ngắn)

It could be the case that a shorter-term bond has more price volatility than a longer- term bond with a greater duration because of the greater volatility of the shorter-term yield.


=> Tức là PV của short-term bond dễ bị thay đổi hơn long-term bond => Bởi vì những cái lợi nhuận của short-term nó sensitive hơn

Bond’s holding period return, its duration, and the investment horizon

Vì thời gian nắm giữ ngắn
=> Market price risk dominated coupon reinvestment risk
=> Bởi vì đâu có trả nhiều coupon để mà reinvestment
=> Interest rates TĂNGLOWER total return


Nếu thời gian nắm giữ dài
=> The benefit gained by coupon reinvestment offsets the risk of market price decrease.

Investors gặp risk từ lãi suất dựa vào 2 yếu tố:

  • Thời gian đầu tư (Investment horizon)
  • Duration gap (So sánh investment horizon đó với MacDur)

Duration gap = Macaulay duration - Investment horizon
Duration gap > 0 => Market price risk > coupon reinvestment risk => SỢ lãi suất TĂNG
Duration gap < 0 => Market price risk < coupon reinvestment risk => SỢ lãi suất GIẢM

Corporate bond

Components of yield

Gov benchmark yield

Spread on top of that benchmark

Expected real interest rate

Expected inflation

credit risk

liquidity risk

Empirical duration VS Analytical duration

Analytical

Empirical

using mathematical formulas

using historical data in statistical models