Barclays has launched the Mirror Futures and Duration Hedged Indices, a new family of index products that use liquid Treasury futures contracts to replicate the interest rate duration exposure of a Barclays fixed income index.
These new indices are expected to be used by both active and passive investors for a variety of portfolio applications including index replication, interest rate hedging, and as benchmarks for investors who want duration exposure that differs from their existing benchmark.
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Brian Upbin, head of Benchmark Index Research at Barclays, said: "By continuing to invest in new index technology and developing new and innovative index products, Barclays is able to offer debt investors a full suite of index and portfolio risk solutions truly tailored to their strategic market perspective."
Ajay Rajadhyaksha, co-head of FICC Research at Barclays, said: "Investors seeking to adjust the duration of their fixed income portfolios in expectation of rising rates will now have an independent and rules-based benchmark alternative that scales the duration exposure to a desired level, while preserving the broad coverage and diversification of their existing fixed income investment set."
Barclays is offering two types of indices for duration management, for both single-currency and multi-currency fixed income investors:
- Barclays Mirror Futures Indices (MFI) are indices whose return reflects a funded set of Treasury futures contracts, weighted to match closely the beginning-of-the-month option adjusted duration (OAD) profile of an underlying standard Barclays bond index such as the US Aggregate or Global Aggregate.
- Barclays Duration Hedged Indices (DHI) are funded indices that reflect the return of a Barclays fixed income index with its interest rate duration hedged (fully or partially) using its associated Mirror Futures Index.
Barclays Mirror Futures and Duration Hedged Indices will be available for a number of existing flagship Barclays indices but can also be customized for client-specific benchmarks.
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