“…if you're worried about yields further rising, well, you just buy floating rate bonds. So you're not exposed to that duration.”

The Money Puzzle · Why the $175 billion man still likes the sharemarket (with UniSuper's John Pearce)

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Buy floating-rate bonds to avoid duration risk when yields are rising

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