Constructing Sovereign Bond Total Return Indices: Incorporating Duration & Convexity Adjustments

Humorous illustration of a black woman juggling complex financial charts and bond symbols, highlighting the concepts of duration and convexity in bond returns.

QuanDoyen recently published a series of articles which described the process of developing a user-friendly Dash web application for visualizing historical data related to 10-year sovereign bond yields and returns. Part 3 of the series described the total return calculations and the duration adjustment that was applied to them.

More recently, we decided to make a few amendments to the derivation of the total return series for a more accurate representation. This brief note describes the calculations which have now been incorporated to our web app.

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