All Fixed Income articles – Page 3
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White papersPutting Direct Lending in Context
Private credit is drawing increased attention, but not all strategies behave the same. Traditional middle market direct lending is best understood by looking beyond headlines to underlying fundamentals—an approach that helps explain its continued role in long‑term portfolios.
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White papersInfrastructure Debt Edge
In this Q&A with AM Best, Orhan Sarayli highlights how infrastructure debt can enhance insurer portfolios through strong risk-return attributes, diversification and long-duration cash flows.
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White papersThe New Era of Income Investing
How to design income portfolios beyond traditional stocks and bonds.
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White papersImplementation Alpha Across the Fixed Income Spectrum
Disciplined implementation can reduce costs drag and capture inefficiencies across the fixed income spectrum from indexing to enhanced and active strategies.
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White papersInflation Squeezes Consumers and Producers Alike
Inflation isn’t just a headline, it’s spreading through the supply chain. Energy costs are lifting producer and import prices, increasing the risk of persistent inflation. Even if energy pressures ease, underlying inflationary momentum is likely to remain.
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White papersEconomic Update June 2026
Global markets are navigating an increasingly uneasy mix of geopolitical risk and shifting macro fundamentals. The escalation in the Middle East has reintroduced a stagflationary impulse via higher energy prices, yet risk appetite has remained resilient. Equities have pushed to new highs even as long‑end bond yields have climbed to multi‑decade levels, reflecting inflation, fiscal and policy uncertainty.
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White papersSupport Levels in Sovereign Debt Markets
Is the rise in major sovereign bond yields a temporary response to geopolitical tensions, or are markets settling into a new regime of higher rates?
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White papersEuro credit: Investment potential amid global uncertainty
Credit markets entered 2026 on a solid footing, but the landscape has since shifted significantly. What began as a year of macro optimism was tested by two successive shocks: AI-driven disruptions to private credit, and latterly, the Middle East conflict which reignited stagflation fears. However, despite this backdrop, the asset class has demonstrated notable resilience.
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White papersEmerging Market Debt: Why it Belongs in Your Investment Portfolio
No longer a niche exposure, emerging market debt has become a key allocation that offers income, diversification, and a growing role in investment portfolios.
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PodcastBond Market Volatility, Yield Curves & Equity Resilience - Investment views by Outerblue Convictions
Global markets are being shaped by a fast-moving geopolitical backdrop, with rising tensions in the Middle East and uncertainty around the Strait of Hormuz adding to volatility across rates, credit and equities. In this episode of Outerblue Convictions, host Swaha Pattanaik speaks with Monica Defend, Head of the Amundi Investment Institute, about how the team is interpreting the latest moves in macro and bond market volatility, and what this means for portfolio allocation.
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White papersIlliquidity premia in private debt: Q1 2026
In our Q1 2026 deep dive, our research team crunched the data to explore how evolving macro conditions are reflected in private debt returns
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White papersEmerging Market Debt: Enduring Strength Outlook Holds
Emerging market debt enters the second half of 2026 on a solid footing, with local currency bonds favoured for yield, resilience, and valuation support.
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White papersCIO Weekly: In Search of Breadth
The equity risk premium has effectively vanished. While it is a signal worth heeding, it is not cause for immediate alarm, particularly for portfolios that are genuinely diversified.
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White papersDuration offers an opportunity as odds grow for Iran off-ramp
Inflation pressure, potential monetary tightening and the Iran conflict have pushed bond yields higher.
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VideoHow does our trade finance process work?
In this video, Jingjing Pan, Senior Investment Analyst, outlines how credit quality, disciplined structuring and diversification can support resilient, risk-adjusted returns.
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White papersA deal with Iran will not push the Fed to cut policy rates
A U.S.–Iran agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz appears to be moving closer. If implemented, it would restore energy flows and begin to unwind the largest supply disruption in history. Current reports suggest that reopening the Strait would trigger a 60-day negotiation phase focused on Iran’s nuclear program, so the path forward is not yet free of implementation risk.
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White papersQ1 2026 Investment Grade Corporate Market Review and Outlook
MetLife Investment Management’s “Q1 2026 Investment Grade Corporate Market Review and Outlook” highlights a volatile start to the year driven by policy shifts, geopolitical tensions and elevated issuance. Despite increased uncertainty, credit markets remained resilient as higher yields continued to support investor demand.
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White papersCIO Weekly: Interest Rates Come Back Into Focus
With all the focus on geopolitics, interest rates remain an important foundation for markets, and last week’s move higher in long-end yields provided a stark reminder of that.
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White papersRethinking global diversification
The Russia-Ukraine war, the rise of tariffs and, most recently, the energy crisis are all triggers of a new geo-economic regime, where the forces shaping markets are broader and more structural.
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White papersRising yields, rising uncertainty
“Bond yields at the short end of the curve moved up as markets repriced central bank action in response to inflation. Long-end yields rose mainly because of higher risk premium, as the war in the Middle East continues to create uncertainty.”
