Bond Management Is a Negative Art

Since gains from bond trading are capped by the yield at maturity, but only returns if the bond pays out, the value generated is not from what you buy but what you exclude, avoiding bonds that don’t pay out I.e. the losses you don’t take.

This is a kind of determinate negation, bond management is defined by what it is not.

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