APPENDIX G

Combining duration allocation returns

To see that the sum of the market duration allocation, market duration selection and market direction terms is in fact the active market return, expand equations (14.1114.13) to give

G.1
G.2
G.3

Summing the terms and rearranging gives

G.4

The second and third terms on the RHS are zero. Summing over i gives

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