The former has an average duration of 5. Notice what this means for how a bond ladder responds when interest rates rise. Though the prices of previously-held bonds will decline, new bonds will constantly be added to the portfolio with higher yields. It turns out that over time, those higher yields make up for those price declines. How long must you hold for this happy result to occur?
To illustrate the remarkable accuracy of their formula, I will focus on bond ladders containing intermediate-term corporate bonds with an average duration of about five years. According to the formula, your total return will be immune to interest-rate changes provided you hold for at least nine years.
This chart plots the yields of intermediate-term corporate bonds for each month since , along with what your total return would have been for each of those months had you bought and held for nine subsequent years.
Notice how remarkably close is the correlation between the two. To pick a specific example, focus on June , at which point the yield on intermediate-term corporates was 4.
That yield represented a multiyear low, and over the next five years that yield would double to 8. Nevertheless, as you can see from the chart, that starting yield was closely correlated with what your total return would have been 5. If your CD has a call provision, which many step-rate CDs do, the decision to call the CD is at the issuer's sole discretion. Also, if the issuer calls the CD, you may obtain a less favorable interest rate upon reinvestment of your funds. Fidelity makes no judgment as to the creditworthiness of the issuing institution.
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