Fixed Income – Page 74
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White papersAlternative beta as true diversifiers
Alternative betas can play the role of a true diversifier in a broad-based portfolio. They include various equity style factors and can be found across asset classes such as stocks, bonds, credit, currency and commodities.
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White papersThe Future Book: Unravelling Workplace Pensions
The Pensions Policy Institute, commissioned by Columbia Threadneedle Investments, has published a new compendium of DC statistics, “The Future Book”, setting out available data on the DC landscape, projections of the future aggregate value of DC assets, commentary and analysis of current trends.
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Absolute Return Fixed Income: Where does it fit in?
We define absolute return as a style of investing focused on alpha strategies with returns coming from beta largely excluded. While beta is usually positive, it may not always be.
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Private debt markets: Asset owners can work together
Pension funds and other long-term asset owners are developing a greater appetite for private-sector loans. But the benefits of diversification and reliable yield come with the cost of greater analysis, more complex, idiosyncratic legal agreements and less liquidity. To weather these challenges, the best help might come from a like-minded ...
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Debt, distortion and navigating credit markets
Markets have been distorted by unprecedented central bank intervention. In spite of talk of policy normalisation, the burden of debt is a significant constraint. Finding opportunities in credit markets will require innovative investment approaches, writes Insight Investment’s Head of Credit, Alex Veroude
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Convertible Bonds: An attractive asset class in today’s environment
Convertibles are hybrid securities combining features of both bonds and equities with the capability to give investors access to “best of both worlds”. In today’s volatile equity markets and low interest rate environment, they are particularly interesting.
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White papersNot all active managers are created equal: what to look for and why
This paper challenges the notion that active fund management – in aggregate and after fees – is a negative sum game. Indeed, the reward for selecting exceptional managers who deliver net outperformance can be a significant uncorrelated source of investment return.
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Edmond de Rothschild: The Challenge Of Delivering Returns In A Low Yield Environment
In today’s durably low interest rate environment, generating attractive returns from the bond markets remains a key challenge for investors. A number of fixed income sectors do offer opportunities, but bond picking is still fundamental.
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From hero to zero and beyond: The investment implications of negative yields
Negative yields are seldom mentioned in economic and finance textbooks. But now that the central banks of Denmark, the eurozone, Sweden and Switzerland have set official rates below zero, investors are having to grapple with negative yields for short-dated, and indeed, some longer-maturity fixed income instruments.
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Optimising your credit strategy in a low-yield world
Investment grade credit markets provided investors with strong performance in 2014, but with credit markets testing their highs, now is an opportune time for investors to reconsider how credit portfolios might be affected by diverging US and eurozone monetary policy.
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The case for pension funds to consider buy and maintain
Why should pension funds consider a buy and maintain strategy and how are such strategies being used by pension funds?
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Opportunities on financial debt amid today’s quest for yield and regulatory shifts
Why invest in subordinated financial debt today? We believe there are 3 main reasons that warrant exposure to this bond segment.
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Webcast: The Global Private Finance Opportunity
As investors continue to hunt for yield in this historically low interest rate environment, global private credit markets offer a potential solution for achieving both attractive returns and diversification.
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Senior secured loans: an attractive addition to fixed income portfolios
Senior secured leveraged loans have received a lot of attention lately due to the record inflows in loan mutual funds, the creation of loan ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds) and the newly resurgent CLO (Collateralized Loan Obligation) market.
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LGM Investments: The Search for Quality at a Reasonable Price
Emerging market stocks can exhibit balance sheet strength, attractive valuations and an increasing ability to pay out dividends, offering long-term investment options for sophisticated investors as part of diversified investment portfolios.
