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Inputs
Fund Returns

Base Return Fund

Local Return Fund

Trade Return Fund

Price Return Fund

See Detecting Inconsistent

Returns in Appendix C

Returns  for details on using the Base Return Fund to identify inconsistencies in performance data.

Index Returns


Base Return Index

Local Return Index

Trade Return Index

Price Return Index

See Detecting Inconsistent Returns

in Appendix C

for details on using the Base Return Index to identify inconsistencies in performance data.

WeightsBase Weight Fund
Base Weight Index
Fund ReturnsAccret Amort Return Fund
Base Return Fund
Convexity Return Fund
Coupon Return Fund
Cross Product Return Fund
Currency Return Fund
Duration Matched Excess Yield Change Fund
Duration Matched Price Return Fund
Duration Matched Total Return Fund
Duration Matched Yield Change Fund
Duration Matched Yield Return Fund
Key Rate Duration Return Fund
Option Adjusted Begin Spread Fund
Option Adjusted End Spread Fund
Option Adjusted Spread Change Fund
Option Adjusted Yield Change Fund
Parallel Shift Return Fund
Pivot Yield Change Fund
Price ExConvexity Return Fund
Price Return Fund
Price Spread Return Fund
Reshape Return Fund
Rolldown Return Fund
Total Residual Return Fund
Total Spread Return Fund
Yield Return Fund
Yield Spread Return Fund
See Detecting Inconsistent
Returns in Appendix C
Returns  for details on using the Base Return Fund to identify inconsistencies in performance data.
Fund Contributions

Base Contribution Fund
Cross Product Contribution Fund
Currency Contribution Fund
Duration Matched Price Contribution Fund
Duration Matched Total Contribution Fund
Duration Matched Yield Contribution Fund
Key Rate Duration Return Contribution Fund
Local Contribution Fund
Parallel Contribution Fund
Price Spread Contribution
Reshape Contribution Fund
Residual Return Contribution Fund
Roll Contribution Fund
Total Spread Contribution
Trade Contribution Fund
Yield Spread Contribution

Index Returns

Accret Amort Return Index
Base Return Index
Convexity Return Index
Coupon Return Index
Cross Product Return Index
Currency Return Index
Duration Matched Excess Yield Change Index
Duration Matched Price Return Index
Duration Matched Total Return Index
Duration Matched Yield Change Index
Duration Matched Yield Return Index
Key Rate Duration Return Index
Option Adjusted Begin Spread Index
Option Adjusted End Spread Index
Option Adjusted Spread Change Index
Option Adjusted Yield Change Index
Parallel Shift Return Index
Pivot Yield Change Index
Price ExConvexity Return Index
Price Return Index
Price Spread Return Index
Reshape Return Index
Rolldown Return Index
Total Residual Return Index
Total Spread Return Index
Trade Contribution Index
Yield Return

Index

Index 
Yield Spread Return Index

See Detecting Inconsistent Returns

in Appendix C

for details on using the Base Return Index to identify inconsistencies in performance data.

Index ContributionsBase Contribution Index
Cross Product Contribution Index
Currency Contribution Index
Duration Matched Price Contribution Index
Duration Matched Total Contribution Index
Duration Matched Yield Contribution Index
Key Rate Duration Return Contribution Index
Local Contribution Index
Parallel Contribution Index
Price Spread Contribution Index
Reshape Contribution Index
Residual Return Contribution Index
Roll Contribution Index
Total Spread Contribution Index
Yield Spread Contribution Index
Relative ReturnsAccret Amort Return Difference
Base Return Difference
Base Return Fund In-Out Difference
Base Return Index In-Out Difference
Convexity Return Difference
Coupon Return Difference
Cross Product Return Difference
Currency Return Difference
Duration Matched Excess Yield Change Difference
Duration Matched Price Return Difference
Duration Matched Total Return Difference
Duration Matched Yield Change Difference
Duration Matched Yield Return Difference
Key Rate Duration Return Difference
Local Return Difference
Option Adjusted Begin Spread Difference
Option Adjusted End Spread Difference
Option Adjusted Spread Change Difference
Option Adjusted Yield Change Difference
Parallel Shift Return Difference
Pivot Yield Change Difference
Price ExConvexity Return Difference
Price Model Return Difference
Price Return Difference
Price Spread Return Difference
Reshape Return Difference
Residual Return Difference
Rolldown Return Difference
Total Spread Return Difference
Yield Return Difference
Yield Spread Return Difference
See Detecting Inconsistent Returns
in Appendix C
for details on using the Base Return Fund In-Out Difference and Base Return Index In-Out Difference to identify inconsistencies in performance data.
Attribution Effects

Allocation
Allocation Interaction
Cross Product Effect
Currency Effect
Duration Matched Price Effect
Duration Matched Total Return Effect
Duration Matched Yield Effect
Interaction
Key Rate Duration Effect
Parallel Shift Effect
Price Spread Effect
Reshape Effect
Residual Effect
Rolldown Effect
Selection
Selection Interaction
Total Attributed
Total Key Rate Duration Effect
Total Spread Effect
Trading Effect
Price Source Effect 
Yield Spread Effect


Note: These options display the effects before the multiple-period smoothing algorithm is applied.

Smoothed Attribution Effects

Smoothed Allocation Interaction
Smoothed Allocation
Smoothed Cross Product Effect
Smoothed Currency Effect
Smoothed Duration Matched Price Effect
Smoothed Duration Matched Total Effect
Smoothed Duration Matched Yield Effect
Smoothed Fund Base Contribution
Smoothed Index Base Contribution
Smoothed Interaction
Smoothed Key Rate Duration Effect
Smoothed Parallel Shift Effect
Smoothed Price Spread Effect
Smoothed Reshape Effect
Smoothed Residual Effect
Smoothed Rolldown Effect
Smoothed Selection Interaction
Smoothed Selection
Smoothed Total Attributed
Smoothed Total Key Rate Duration Effect
Smoothed Total Spread Effect
Smoothed Trading Effect
Smoothed Price Source Effect
Smoothed Yield Spread Effect

Note: These options display the effects after the smoothing algorithm is applied.
Eagle recommends choosing smoothed attribution effects regardless of the number of time periods. In the case of a single time period, no smoothing is applied. The effects are only smoothed for multiple time periods. This allows you to use the smoothed effects in all cases.

WeightsAverage Base Weight Difference
Average Base Weight Fund
Average Base Weight Index
Base Weight Difference

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About Key Rate Durations

Duration of a bond is the sensitivity of an instrument's value to interest rate changes across the yield curve. It does not capture the impact of yield change at a particular point on the curve. Key rate duration (KRD) is the interest rate sensitivity of the bond's value to interest rate change at a particular point on the yield curve.

Mathematically, the sum of the key rate duration is equal to the duration of the bond. Eagle supports an extension of its Fixed Income Attribution model to support key rate duration decomposition so that the duration matched risk-free price return is decomposed into roll and a set of key rate durations effects.

To quantify the yield curve sensitivity of each bond in a portfolio, you can define a series of key rate durations relative to specific yield curve points. The key rate duration is the percentage price response per 100 basis point movement in a particular risk-free rate ─ while the rest of the yield curve remains constant. By defining many points along the yield curve, key rate durations provide an accurate representation of the sensitivity of each bond in a portfolio to changes of the yield curve.

Key rate durations can play a key role in portfolio management by quantifying the exposure of a portfolio to each section of the yield curve. Using these measures, portfolio managers who deliberately want to express a view about yield curve reshaping structure their portfolio to have different key rate duration exposures from those of their benchmark. Alternatively, investors who want to immunize their portfolios to yield curve reshaping structure a portfolio with the same key rate duration exposures as their benchmark.

To calculate each of the key rate duration returns, you multiply the observed yield change at each of the key rate duration points by -1 times the key rate duration of that point. The following table lists the return for key rate durationi.

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You can have as many key rate durations as you like. The default number is 10. Performance System Parameter 11 allows you to edit the default number.

To edit the default number of key rate durations:

  1. From any Eagle window, click the Eagle Navigator button to access the Eagle Navigator.
  2. Enter System in the Start Search text box and click the System Parameter (Performance Center) link.
    You see the Performance Center and the Performance System Parameters workspace.
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  1. Select Sys Item 11, Maximum number of Key Rate Duration points for Fixed Income Attribution, right click and select Edit.
    You see the Edit Performance System Parameter 11 dialog box.
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  2. Edit

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  1. Edit the value in the Item Value text box and click Save.

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You can use the Optional Fields tab on the Creating Fixed Income Options & Field Map Field dialog box to specify additional fields. These additional fields are optional. That is, they are not required for the standard portfolio and benchmark return decomposition that is used for the benchmark relative attribution analysis. See the following figure.
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Creating Fixed Income Options & Field Map Field – Optional Fields Tab  
The following table describes each option.

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