duration risk

Russell Investment's Clive Smith explains how to determine the extent interest rates may provide insurance in a portfolio.

There are degrees of risk in equity markets – a long-established large-cap banking stock is (generally) less volatile than a micro-cap mining play – and there are...

Against a backdrop of record-high equity markets and low-interest rates, investing for income while seeking to preserve capital is an increasingly common goal among...

I’m borrowing from Financial Times columnist Merryn Somerset Webb’s expression that inflation is a wealth tax because it so elegantly puts into relief what the current...

If, in the first three months of the year, financial markets were digesting the enormous liquidity poured into the system, at another level they were also wrestling...

The prevailing narrative in markets recently has been that rising interest rates would not be an issue for investors, given growth is accelerating and a pick-up in...

With the backdrop of March and the trailing ‘winter of discontent’, the stark reality is that a number of converging factors will drive investors to rethink defensive...

Presenting recently on the state of the market and its behaviour, I was asked about some of the most risky elements currently at play. I’ve written previously about...

Going into expected US Fed rate hikes, most investors would assume that long-dated bonds will likely sell off considerably. Contrary to what popular media commentary...