Actuarial Notes

Key Rate Durations: Measures of Interest Rate Risks

By Thomas S. Y. Ho · The Journal of Fixed Income · 1992 · CP351-107-25

Study guide: Exam CP-351

An article in The Journal of Fixed Income, volume 2, issue 2 (September 1992), pages 29-44, on the interest rate risk exposure of interest rate-contingent claims. Its abstract observes that different types of instrument are affected differently by yield curve movements, and that understanding each instrument's exposure lets portfolio managers evaluate interest rate bets and control risk.

On the syllabus

  • Exam CP-351 — the whole article, listed in the syllabus as "CP351-107-25: Key Rate Durations: Measures of Interest Rate Risk"; outcome 2a.

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