All Fixed Income articles – Page 34
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The Road to Decarbonization Is Bumpy. Carbon Allowances Can Help.
The global pursuit to limit rising temperatures has bolstered carbon allowances markets. As these instruments flourish, they’ve become a distinct asset class that offers hedging and other benefits in a portfolio.
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European Private Loans Benefit from Credit Crunch
With Europe’s public debt markets tightening as its corporate borrowers seek to refinance, private lenders sense an opportunity.
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What’s in Store for US Insurers in 2023?
Insurers’ risk controls and investment skills faced stiff tests in 2022, as both inflation and interest rates skyrocketed and nearly every asset class endured a sharp selloff. With traditional diversification approaches failing, investors had nowhere to hide.
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10 investment themes for 2023
Although many investors are expecting a return to normal after inflation subsides and central banks stop raising interest rates, we believe markets are undergoing significant changes and it might be necessary to reset expectations in this new environment.
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Climate Transition: Burning Questions for Credit Strategies
Transitioning the global economy to net-zero emissions presents a significant challenge, but it also offers an opportunity for fixed income investors—in energy, utilities, and beyond.
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Is 2023 the year of value-add?
These are, it has to be said, dramatic times. No sooner than most of the world was starting to emerge from the long shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was confronted with another crisis.
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Active fixed income ETFs in the spotlight
Given challenging market conditions, it looks like the time for active fixed income ETFs to shine, according to Jason Xavier, Head of EMEA ETF Capital Markets. He explains why he sees more growth in this area.
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Muni bond update: Credit quality still looks strong
While 2023 has started on shaky ground for the municipal bond market, there are reasons to be optimistic for more stability ahead, according to Jennifer Johnston, Franklin Templeton Fixed Income’s Director of Municipal Bond Research.
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Fixed Income: Securitized sectors outlook and opportunities
Fixed income is once again offering income, leading to attractive risk-adjusted return profiles in some segments of securitized sectors. As investors look to take advantage of higher yields, securitized sectors can offer not only income opportunities, but also uncorrelated returns and diversification benefits.
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Ukraine: one year on but no end in sight
After 12 months of fighting further action is needed from the west to prevent a balance-of-payments crisis and to support the reconstruction costs faced by Ukraine
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Roving recession to staggered recovery?
In this monthly series, we take a quick, comprehensive look at current macroeconomic themes that matter to clients.
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New data hints rate hiking is far from over
Plans for the European Central Bank (ECB) to continue to hike interest rates gain momentum following better-than-expected economic data releases.
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Hard to Ignore: Risk/Return Profiles of Private Credit and Senior Private Credit
The size of the private debt market currently stands at an estimated $1.2 trillion. And with private credit AUM increasing over 10% annually for the past decade, Hamilton Lane believes that the opportunity for future investment remains robust.
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Notes from the Road: Inflation, Private Assets and a Cautious Consensus
The beginning of the year always offers a chance to catch up with a broad range of clients who are in the mode of thinking about the big picture outlook: pension funds, insurers, consultants and sovereign wealth funds across Australia, Asia, Europe and North America. This note reflects on the key issues that clients have wanted to talk about in the early months of this year. Collectively, these topics give us a picture of what’s on investors’ minds.
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Stagflation Haze
The world is grappling with a combination of once in a generation shocks, producing an uncertain and complex economic landscape.
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Equity-bond correlations: was 2022 an outlier?
Should we be shocked? Negative equity and bond returns in 2022 provided further evidence that annual performance by the asset classes is not as uncorrelated as commonly believed. How frequently do these so-called ‘outlier’ years occur, and how can investors with long-beta portfolios be better prepared?
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Podcast
The Investment Podcast: European High Yield – changing perceptions
To what extent do European High Yield markets represent good value at the moment and is now an attractive entry point?
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Ahead of the Curve, Q1 2023
Read the latest views from our Chief Economist Silvia Dall’Angelo as she outlines three scenarios that could influence markets in the coming months.
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Blog
Green Bank Bonds: Abuse of Proceeds?
We see three reasons why investors should treat Green, Social, and Sustainability (GSS) bonds’ claims to ESG eligibility with skepticism.
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Podcast
All The Credit, Ep. 36 - Navigating Default Lines
Insights on credit fundamental trends and vulnerabilities across the asset class, along with outlooks on defaults and loss expectations.