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Three Ways to Arrange Maturities

A ladder, a barbell and a bullet hold the same asset class and produce completely different sensitivities to rates.

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  1. 0:00How you space the maturities changes the portfolio more than the issuers do.
  2. 0:05The three shapes. Evenly spread, split at the extremes, or concentrated on one date.
  3. 0:15What a ladder gives you. Something maturing regularly, so you reinvest at whatever rates then exist.
  4. 0:24The barbell. Short bonds for flexibility, long bonds for yield, and nothing in the middle.
  5. 0:33The reason to choose. Match the structure to when you actually need the money, not to a yield target.
  6. 0:41Let the liability decide the shape.
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Three Ways to Arrange Maturities — MAD Academy Training Video · MadStockAlerts