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Finance Dictionary and Glossary of Investment Terms
interest rate risk
Definition 1.
The possibility of a reduction in the value of a security, especially a bond, resulting from a rise in interest rates. This risk can be reduced by diversifying the durations of the fixed-income investments that are held at a given time.
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Definition 2.
The chance that a security's value will change due to a change in interest rates. For example, a bond's price drops as interest rates rise. For a depository institution, also called funding risk: The risk that spread income will suffer because of a change in interest rates.
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Definition 3.
All investors are affected by interest rate risk or the chance that interest rates will change the value of their investment. But interest rates have the greatest impact on bonds. When rates rise, the value of bonds fall. And the longer the term of the bond, the more it falls. So an increase in interest rates will have a much greater impact on a 30-year bond than on a five-year bond.
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