Duration: its development and use in bond portfolio management

GO Bierwag, GG Kaufman, A Toevs - Financial Analysts Journal, 1983 - Taylor & Francis
… Here we will report primarily the findings of studies conducted by Bierwag, Kaufman and
Toevs (BKT).32 These results are representative of most other studies using somewhat different …

Immunization, duration, and the term structure of interest rates

GO Bierwag - Journal of financial and quantitative analysis, 1977 - cambridge.org
… Some numerical examples of some of the theorems developed in this paper are contained
in Bierwag and Kaufman [1]. The author bears responsibility for errors and ambiguities …

Duration and bond portfolio analysis: An overview

GO Bierwag, GG Kaufman, C Khang - Journal of Financial and …, 1978 - cambridge.org
… (Bierwag and Kaufman [4], Bierwag [1], and Bierwag [2J). For example, the multiplicative
shock in which the new term structure becomes 6r(t), where 6 (-1) is the random shock, renders …

Duration analysis: An historical perspective

GO Bierwag, IJ Fooladi - Journal of Applied Finance, 2006 - search.proquest.com
… The first draft of this paper was prepared by the late Gerry Bierwag. He asked Iraj F ooladi to
… The academic world owes Gerry Bierwag for his many contributions in development of dura…

Coping with the risk of interest-rate fluctuations: a note

GO Bierwag, G George - Bond Duration and Immunization, 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
… Complete proofs of all propositions are shown in GO Bierwag, "Immunization, Duration, and
… A more detailed proof of this and one for D2 are presented in Bierwag. 8. Reinvestment of …

An immunization strategy is a minimax strategy

GO Bierwag, C Khang - The Journal of Finance, 1979 - JSTOR
… 5Fisher and Well [7] proved the immunization theorem for the case of two distinct zero
coupon bonds, while Bierwag [2] proved it for the case of one non-zero coupon bond. Our proof …

Immunization strategies for funding multiple liabilities

GO Bierwag, GG Kaufman, A Toevs - Journal of Financial and …, 1983 - cambridge.org
A number of recent papers have shown that it is possible for an investor to immunize a portfolio
of default and option-free coupon bonds so that the return realized over a given planning …

Duration gap for financial institutions

GO Bierwag, GG Kaufman - Financial Analysts Journal, 1985 - Taylor & Francis
… Simulations for the gap measures shown in this article may be conducted on a simulation
model developed for use on an IBM-PC by GO Bierwag and George G. Kaufman. "Interest Rate …

Single factor duration models in a discrete general equilibrium framework

GO Bierwag, GG Kaufman, AL Toevs - The Journal of Finance, 1982 - JSTOR
Bierwag and Khang develop a formal model to show that immunization is consistent with …
Use of duration analysis in active bond portfolio management has been discussed by Bierwag, …

Designing an immunized portfolio: Is M-squared the key?

GO Bierwag, I Fooladi, GS Roberts - Journal of Banking & Finance, 1993 - Elsevier
… The empirical section of the present paper goes beyond the work of Martin and Smith (1988…
to include a bond which matures on the horizon date [Bierwag et al. (198 1, 1982, 1987a), …