All Fixed Income articles – Page 109
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White papersHow Asian Credit Can Add Ballast to Your Portfolio
An improving global economy and expectations of tighter monetary policy may trigger volatility in bond markets. How can fixed-income investors dampen the effect on their portfolios? One answer may be US-dollar Asian corporate bonds.
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White papersIn Credit: Honey, I shrunk the market...
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) minutes confirmed that, as expected, there will be a rate hike in the US next month.
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White papersFrench Presidential Elections: OAT/Bund spread - recent trends, equilibrium value and perspectives
Interest rate differentials between France and Germany rose sharply in the months leading up to the French presidential elections and even reached levels never seen since 2011.
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White papersIn Credit: Macron sweeps to victory
Core bond yields edged modestly higher in the last week faced with a more hawkish US central bank; robust employment data; and an easy victory for Macron in the French election.
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White papersFloating Rate Notes can help prepare for a hike in interest rates
In a fast changing environment, FRNs are an increasingly attractive asset class, as they allow investors to reduce the sensitivity to interest rates fluctuations and to capture some potential yield.
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White papersAsia’s markets appear set to withstand US rate rises
Bond and currency markets have strong fundamentals and look ready to ride the US interest rate cycle comfortably.
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White papersIn Credit: Prague-matic central bank removes currency cap
A combination of mixed US economic data, Trump’s missile strike in Syria, headlines around the US and North Korea and news of attacks in Russia and Sweden all served to keep a lid on core government bond yields over the week.
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White papersFrench Presidential Elections: French public debt - liquid and safe
France’s debt-to-GDP ratio stabilized until 2015, slightly under the threshold of 100%.
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White papersFixed income: the debt disconnect
As the mountainous scale of global debt continues to climb, investors are advised to heed the lessons of the past, argues Chris Higham.
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White papersIn Credit: You can check out any time you like...but can you ever leave?
Deutsche Bank notes that global economic surprises have reached a six and a half year high globally, which continues to support risk assets.
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White papersEmerging Markets Debt: Issuer Selection is Key
The focus of the capital markets is shifting back to investments in the emerging markets debt space. Greater political and economic stability, the reduction of current account deficits and the recovery of commodity prices are just some of the arguments in favour of emerging markets (EMs). Future US policy is creating uncertainties, but EM fixed income investments continue to offer plenty of potential.
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White papersAre Bond Investors Ready for a World Without QE?
Britain’s decision to start its divorce from the EU and France’s looming presidential election are injecting political risk back into markets. Bond investors are braced for political volatility. But are they ready for big monetary policy changes?
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White papersBooming non-farm beats budget boredom
This update is the weekly edition of our weekly publication on fixed-income markets.
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White papersThreadneedle UK Social Bond Fund: three years of doing well by doing good
Following its third anniversary, in January 2017, the fund has shown it can offer investors both profit and principle.
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White papersThe long march to higher interest rates
Jim Cielinski argues that while the bond bubble has burst, it remains to be seen how quickly the fallout may spread.
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White papersIn Credit: Rising US rates and Dutch courage
In the US, the Federal Reserve did as expected and lifted interest rates for the third time this cycle – by 25bps to 1%.
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White papersCross Asset Investment Strategy: March 2017
This month, we present the main issues and scenarios relating to French presidential and legislative elections, as well as the most likely market impacts.
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White papersEvolution of the investment approach to emerging market debt
Emerging market fixed income is a maturing asset class. Its rapid growth in size, scale and complexity has meant that investors have had to adapt their investment approach over time to gain appropriate exposure given the many different risk and return drivers at play across the full spectrum. We believe a total return multi-asset approach is likely to play an increasingly important role in investor allocation behaviour.
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White papersBuild a Buffer in High Income Bonds
When investing in higher-yielding bonds, consider an approach designed to protect your portfolio from market turbulence.
