Abstract
This chapter presents some of the issues surrounding bond portfolio management. It discusses a few preliminaries on fixed income valuation, followed by some of the risk management techniques associated with bond portfolio management. The value of an investment depends on the return that it renders. For bonds, the single most important measure of return is the yield. There are several ways of calculating bond yields. The simplest measure used is the current yield. This measure assesses the cash return generated by an investment over the cash price, or simply, the return generated on money invested, assuming that prices remain constant. Duration (also known as Macaulay duration) is a measure of a bond's sensitivity to interest rate changes. However, the sensitivity of a bond to movements in the interest rate is influenced by a number of different factors. Duration is a composite measure of risk and is, effectively, the weighted average length of time to the receipt of a bond's payments (coupon and principal). Duration values are stated in years. The weight associated with each cash flow is proportional to the present value of each cash flow.
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