The price-yield relationship for a typical bond is convex, opening upward as shown in Figure 22.2. Investment

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The price-yield relationship for a typical bond is convex, opening upward as shown in Figure 22.2. Investment professionals often describe the price-yield relationship of mortgage pass-through securities (described in Chapter 20) as being "negatively convex"-that is, a graph of the relationship opens downward. What features of these securities could produce such a relationship?
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Fundamentals of Investments

ISBN: 978-0132926171

3rd edition

Authors: Gordon J. Alexander, William F. Sharpe, Jeffery V. Bailey

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