Somer G. Anderson is CPA, doctor of accounting, and an accounting and finance professor who has been working in the accounting and finance industries for more than 20 years. Her expertise covers a ...

What Is Held-to-Maturity (HTM) Securities? Held-to-Maturity securities are debt securities that a company intends and can hold until they mature. They are generally purchased for the fixed income they ...

A version of this article was published in the November 2015 issue of Morningstar ETFInvestor. Download a complimentary copy of ETFInvestor here. Flaw of Averages Duration, by itself, is a crude ...

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