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Steven Nickolas is a writer and has 10+ years of experience working as a consultant to retail and institutional investors. The Macaulay duration and the modified duration are chiefly used to calculate ...

Average maturity shows when the fund's underlying bonds are expected to mature, macaulay duration indicates how long it takes to recover the investment through cash flows, and modified duration ...

Modified duration measures price sensitivity to interest rate changes. The calculation for modified duration is relatively straightforward. Modified duration is important for investors in determining ...