Macaulay duration calculation

What is the Macaulay duration (in years) of a $100 bond that pays 10% coupon rate for 5 years, with a constant yield curve of 6%?


The answer is 4.23.

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Chew-Seong Cheong
Mar 13, 2015

Macaulay duration of a financial asset is the weighted average maturity of cash flows, and it is given by:

M a c D = i = 1 n t i P V i i = 1 n P V i = i = 1 n t i C F i ( 1 + y ) i i = 1 n C F i ( 1 + y ) i MacD = \frac{\displaystyle \sum_{i=1}^{n}{t_i PV_i}} {\displaystyle \sum_{i=1}^{n}{PV_i}} = \frac{\displaystyle \sum_{i=1}^{n}{t_i \frac {CF_i}{(1+y)^i}}} {\displaystyle \sum_{i=1}^{n}{ \frac {CF_i}{(1+y)^i}}}

where:

  • i i indexes the cash flows
  • t i t_i is the time in years until the i t h i^{th} payment will be received
  • P V i PV_i is the present value of the i t h i^{th} cash payment from the asset
  • C F i CF_i is the i t h i^{th} cash payment from the asset
  • y y is the yield to maturity

Using the following spreadsheet the Macaulay duration of the S100 bond is 4.24 \boxed{4.24} .

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