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Investment appraisal

4.5 Modified Duration

As well as Macaulay Duration, there is another commonly used
measure of duration, known as Modified Duration.

Modified Duration = Macaulay Duration/(1+ cost of capital)

Illustrations and further practice

Now try Illustration 1, Illustration 2 and TYU 5 from Chapter 2

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