Friday, August 5, 2016

Can the duration of a bond be greater than Time to Maturity


In the case of a vanilla bond I know that the duration will be less than the time to maturity.



But I am observing that for a non-vanilla bond, the duration is greater than time to maturity.


Can somebody provide the intuition for this? How is this possible and why this is the case?




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