Fixed Income – Page 14
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A forced hand: market snapshot
The Bank of England hiked rates for the 13th consecutive time on Thursday, amid worse-than-expected UK inflation data.
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How to Get the Most From Private Placement Debt
Private Placement Debt can offer fixed income investments enhanced diversification, risk-adjusted yield and downside mitigation. We anticipate growing recognition of the role it can play in a wide range of investor portfolios.
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A Balancing Act: Fixed income playbook for 2H 2023
Many bond investors are looking for less volatility and more predictable returns. Five of Allspring’s fixed income leaders explain five key strategies they think bond investors should focus on going forward.
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Why R-star may rise, and its implications for rates and policy
R-star is the real interest rate that is neither expansionary nor contractionary when the economy is at full employment. If the central bank sets its policy rate below R-star, then its monetary policy position is accommodative. The Fed currently believes R-star is about 0.5%, which is significantly lower than the Fed’s calculation of 2% a decade ago.
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Climate Facts: Climate Change is Here and It’s an Investment Issue
The facts about climate change and the unique opportunities for bond investors. The future won’t wait. Start your transition today.
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Climate Bond Investing: Reduce the Carbon, Fund the Transition
We believe climate change is one of the biggest risks in investment portfolios today. But, with this risk also comes tremendous investment opportunity, as the economy reworks against the impact of climate change.
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Bond outlook: Fed pause leaves many paths to income potential
Bonds today provide a sensible option to the dilemma facing investors — what to do as markets ricochet between hopes of a soft landing and concerns of a recession? After a rough 2022, fixed income is back to fulfilling its role as a source of stability and diversification.
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Rethinking Fixed Income investing: Unorthodox portfolio construction in uncertain times
Franklin Templeton Fixed Income: We think the market is being overly optimistic in terms of their inflation expectations and are beginning to account for a change in the US Federal Reserve policy.
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Five Reasons to Buy European Loans
In a world where interest rates have increased dramatically and geopolitical risks are elevated, investors are torn between seeking yield and preserving capital. European loans can help investors pursue both goals.
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Navigating Uncertainty 2.0 - Are bonds in the sweet spot?
Since the start of the year, the potential long term investment opportunity for fixed income has increased. Problems in the banking sector have raised the prospect that central banks will now pivot toward ensuring financial stability and either pause, or start cutting, rates. This increases the chances monetary policy could shift from a headwind for bond markets to overcome into a tailwind supporting results.
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Predictably Unpredictable: Demystifying the Road Ahead
Unprecedented. Uncharted territory. Like nothing we’ve ever seen before.
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How private credit can help fulfil long-term investment needs
In these volatile times, investors with long-term horizons such as global pension schemes need to find assets that can reliably deliver income whilst minimising volatility in challenging environments, but where could they invest in order to meet their requirements?
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Putting the ‘investment’ in investment grade credit
Investment grade bonds have historically provided a resilient and reliable option during volatile and uncertain market conditions. After last year’s sweeping sell-off, the global investment grade universe now offers an array of opportunities in quality issuers, allowing for effective diversification and the potential for attractive returns.
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What gives, corporate hybrids?
Recent underperformance is a response to idiosyncratic newsflow and shouldn’t be seen as a reflection on the broader asset class, says Credit Portfolio Manager Mark Dove.
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Stubbornly high inflation sends bond yields higher
UK inflation fell by less than forecast in April, Wednesday’s data revealed, prompting expectations of further interest rate hikes, and pushing bond yields to their highest levels since October.
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Allspring Climate Transition Fixed Income Strategies
As the world transitions towards net-zero emissions, Allspring’s clients increasingly want to decarbonise their assets. We explain how our climate transition strategies enable this.
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The case to stay invested in the lowest rated segment of emerging market debt
Franklin Templeton Fixed Income suggests that emerging market debt investors need to be aware of the underlying spread dynamics that drive overall spread moves. In this paper, they consider those factors and the opportunities available.
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Is the Fed rate-hike pause still likely?
2023 was to be a relatively well telegraphed year, as opposed to 2022 which took investors by surprise. The idea was simple: in 2022, central banks had raised a wall of interest rates to protect our economies from a wave of inflation not seen since the 1970s. These rate hikes were to cause a slowdown in economic growth during 2023 without plunging the world into a deep recession – the ‘soft landing’ scenario.
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Looking beyond traditional LDI instruments as de-risking gathers steam
In 2022, we saw one of the most unprecedented movements in global financial markets in modern history. A combination of global geopolitical problems and supply-demand imbalances of goods and services due to the pandemic left the Federal Reserve (Fed) with no option but to try and slam the inflationary brake by hiking short-term interest rates to stop the economy from overheating.
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Inflation Quarterly Monitor
In March, the UK Debt Management Office (DMO) announced its borrowing remit for fiscal year 23/24, alongside the Office for Budget Responsibility’s updated forecasts for gross financing. A small downward revision of £3.3 billion was made to the remit in April, resulting in less short and long dated conventional gilts being raised via auctions but no change to inflation-linked gilts.