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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news.

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Speaker 2: How should investors manage bond duration in an era of

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Speaker 2: rising and likely soon falling interest rates? The challenge. Long

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Speaker 2: duration bonds lose value when rates go up. Shorter duration

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Speaker 2: bonds can also lose value, but far less. What happens

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Speaker 2: when the reverse occurs when rates falls, well, the value

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Speaker 2: of long duration bonds go up, shorter duration go up

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Speaker 2: but less. As it turns out, there are many ways

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Speaker 2: investors can take advantage of changing interest rates. I'm Barry Ritolts,

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Speaker 2: and on today's edition of At the Money, we're going

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Speaker 2: to discuss how to manage your fixed income duration when

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Speaker 2: the Federal Reserve becomes active when it comes to interest rates.

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Speaker 2: To help us unpack all of this and what it

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Speaker 2: means for your portfolio, let's bring in Karen Vera. She

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Speaker 2: is head of I Shares US fixed Income strategy for

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Speaker 2: Investing Giant Blackrock. So Karen, let's just start with the basics.

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Speaker 2: What is duration, why does it matter? And why does

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Speaker 2: it seem so confusing to so many bond investors.

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Speaker 3: So duration is simply the interest rate risk of a bond,

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Speaker 3: or you can think about it, it's the amount that

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Speaker 3: the price is going to change in response to a

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Speaker 3: change in interest rates. So the nice thing is today

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Speaker 3: almost any bond or bond fund will typically have that

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Speaker 3: duration number published. So if the duration for examples five,

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Speaker 3: if interest rates go up by one percent, that bond

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Speaker 3: will drop in value by five percent. So it's a

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Speaker 3: pretty easy relationship to think about. I think where it

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Speaker 3: bond or for the bond portfolio. But there's also durations

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Speaker 3: or the interest rate risk at different points on the

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Speaker 3: yield curve. So like two year, we call those key

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Speaker 3: rate durations, so you can think of how much am

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Speaker 3: ten year point, twenty and thirty. And then we also

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Speaker 3: have something called credit spread duration. How much does the

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Speaker 3: or the additional yield over treasuries. So I think when

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Speaker 3: investors think through interest rate risk and how much risk

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Speaker 3: at least quantifying the loss that they could have from

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Speaker 2: So let's look at some real life examples. The FED

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Speaker 2: began raising rates in March twenty twenty two. About eighteen

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Speaker 2: months later, they pretty much finished and we were over

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Speaker 2: five hundred points basis points higher then we began. How

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Speaker 2: did that impact bonds, both short and long duration.

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Speaker 3: We actually had an in twenty two, one of the

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Speaker 3: worst years in terms of bond performance in decades. The

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Speaker 3: and that has an intermediate duration, our duration of between

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Speaker 3: five and six years. However, long bonds had double digit losses.

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Speaker 3: I think twenty plus year treasuries were down over twenty percent,

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Speaker 3: and I think that was really hurtful for a lot

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Speaker 2: And if memory serves me, I think twenty twenty two

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Speaker 3: That's right, and it really comes back to, you know,

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Speaker 3: post COVID inflation came back into the system and the

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Speaker 2: So prior to the initiation of that rate hiking cycle

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Speaker 2: Is that an exaggeration or is that pretty much what

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Speaker 3: No, no barrier spot on we did. We have seen

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Speaker 3: In various studies we've seen that as economies age, interest

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Speaker 3: So we had all of those tailwinds kind of pulling

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Speaker 2: So that's forty years as far as you know. Is

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Speaker 2: least in US history. I don't know what happened in

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Speaker 3: Think in modern he we could say modern history. I

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Speaker 2: Right, and probably unlikely to ever be matched again in

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Speaker 2: our lifetime or perhaps our kids and grandkids. So let's

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Speaker 2: talk about what started a couple of years ago. The

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Speaker 2: you're getting paid the same for long duration as you

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we've seen these inverted yield curves. They typically happen

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Speaker 3: the yield curve is still inverted, and the response has

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Speaker 3: been pretty amazing by investors. They've all moved into ultrashort

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Speaker 2: So let's take a closer look at that. For a

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Speaker 2: What sort of competition does that create for longer duration

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Speaker 3: I'll take the money market fund question first, So we

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Speaker 3: when that yield curve does start to reshape more, normally,

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Speaker 3: So that's really what we're seeing investors doing right now

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Speaker 2: So I'm glad you brought that up. We're recording this

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Speaker 2: Everybody has pretty much agreed Drome Palace come out and

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Speaker 2: said it, Hey, we're going to begin cutting rates. The

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Speaker 2: long wait is over. And you mentioned fifteen was it?

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Speaker 2: Fifteen trillion went down to seven trillion in money markets?

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Speaker 2: Is the assumption that a lot of this is flowing

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Speaker 3: We absolutely have seen a lot of people are still

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Speaker 3: on a percentage basis. So I think, well, we will

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Speaker 2: So pardon my niavitae for asking such an obvious question.

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Speaker 2: If you wait for rates to fall to move into

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Speaker 2: longer duration bonds, haven't you missed it? I mean, don't

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Speaker 2: you want to extend your duration before the rate cuts begin.

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Speaker 2: In fact, we saw rates move down appreciably in August

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Speaker 2: following the most recent the CPI data point was very benign.

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Speaker 3: Markets are great about getting ahead of the next cycle,

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Speaker 3: and we have seen that. We've seen interest rates coming

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Speaker 3: We think, though it's not too late, you're still going

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Speaker 3: going to reshape. So we're even using some of these

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Speaker 3: I think that the investors could rethink their strategy today

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Speaker 2: So that's the perfect segue into investors who are interested

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Speaker 3: I would say, think about your cash position. What are

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Speaker 3: we think that's really where you're going to see the

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Speaker 2: And our final question, how should investors be thinking about

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Speaker 3: So longer duration fixed in come paper does have almost

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Speaker 3: We do see it as a very efficient hedge against

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Speaker 3: equity markets. So if equity markets fall, we tend to

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Speaker 3: see that flight to quality and investors go towards those

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Speaker 3: long duration especially treasuries. We have a treasury ETFTLT it's

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Speaker 3: twenty plus years. It actually sell the highest amount of

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Speaker 3: because people were trying to hedge some of that equity

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Speaker 3: market volatility. So if you have a portfolio that's very

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Speaker 3: heavy in equities eighty ninety plus percent, you could add

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Speaker 3: a little bit of long duration bonds and that would

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Speaker 3: help smooth out the portfolio returns over time. So that's

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Speaker 3: really the role that we think of with longer duration bonds.

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Speaker 2: So to wrap up, investors who have been enjoying five

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Speaker 2: percent yields in money market and managing very short term

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Speaker 2: duration bond portfolios should recognize, hey, rake cuts are coming.

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Speaker 2: Jerome Palse said they were coming. This cycle is likely

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Speaker 2: to last more than just a cut or two. The

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Speaker 2: bond market is already starting to move yields down, and

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Speaker 2: if you wait too long, you're going to miss the

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Speaker 2: opportunity to lock in long duration, higher yielding bonds as

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Speaker 2: the cycle begins. I'm Barry Ridolts, and this is Bloomberg's

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Speaker 2: at the money.

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Speaker 1: Aside.

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Speaker 3: It is