All Fixed Income articles – Page 42
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White papersWhy are fallen angels the pick of high yield?
How could fallen angels offer a high-yield (HY) exposure of superior quality in a strategic allocation? We consider how investors can use these bonds to improve performance potential while mitigating relative ratings risk. In our previous insight of this three-part series, we made the case for a dedicated allocation to the segment due to the ability of price recovery to drive outperformance, and a compelling supply outlook.
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White papersFixed Income: the road ahead
Recent crises within US regional banks and the more idiosyn- cratic case of Credit Suisse have various underlying causes. However, the overall context of these issues is undoubtedly the sudden and significant tightening of financial conditions in the past year.
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White papersWhere next for inflation?
Inflation is by far the most crucial investment consideration today, yet it’s not all bad news for long-term investors. In this paper, our Research, ESG and Investment teams explain the factors shaping their inflation outlook, the dynamics behind resilient equity markets, why ESG and sustainable development is here to stay despite short- term price pressures, and where to find investment opportunities in today’s uncertain environment.
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White papersMaking an impact with fixed income
Impact investing is an increasingly compelling consideration for core bond allocations
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White papersInflation, disinflation, inflection Who is right?
The market narrative remains focused on a single topic – inflation – but the overall picture is markedly different to that of late 2022. Equity, credit and rates markets are not synchronised in their pricing or probabilities of the outcomes from here. This conflicting picture of significant rate cuts just around the corner, dovetailing nicely with median levels of credit spreads and a somewhat lofty equity multiple valuation backdrop, leave us asking: ‘Who is right?’
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White papersThe Great Reallocation and what it means for fixed income investors
“Income is back in fixed income” – If there was a contest for the catchphrase of the year 2022, this one would certainly be a hopeful contender as it captures the essence of market evolution. The fixed income space has undergone a significant transformation and reallocation implications reverberate into 2023. This has resulted in a year-to-date influx of USD 87bn in global fixed income ETFs.
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White papersVirulent inflation may have peaked – but does further danger lurk?
Markets speak to the fluidity of the environment around them. Over the past year, they’ve delivered verdicts on government economic programmes, central bank monetary policy and the energy sector – but how are the markets perceiving inflation today since it became structural a year ago?
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White papersEMD quarterly review Q1 2023
Bond markets broadly advanced over the quarter, though with some periods of volatility, as investors adjusted interest rate expectations going forward, now suggesting many we may see rate cuts coming before the end of the year. The reopening of the Chinese economy also supported sentiment on the outlook for global economic growth, with Chinese business survey data showing early signs of improvement.
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White papersPM Spotlight: For the Love of the Journey
Manju Boraiah, senior portfolio manager and head of Systematic Edge Fixed Income and custom SMA Investments, has carved a unique path for his career—guided by his two passions, art and math.
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White papersHow could tighter bank lending impact growth?
In the latest instalment of Simply put, where we make macro calls with a multi-asset perspective, we consider how the banking crisis will impact the credit channel to the economy. How could a contraction in bank loans lower US GDP?
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White papersBroadening Access to Private Assets: Regulatory Wrappers Unwrapped
The number of regulatory wrappers is growing as access to private assets broadens. When presented with different options, there are a number of considerations to keep in mind.
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White papersFixed income: performance drivers as peak rates approach
As the US rate-hiking cycle nears its zenith, two positive drivers for fixed-income investment are coming into view: stronger performance prospects for sovereign bonds and the return of the low correlation between duration and credit risk. In the Q2 issue of Alphorum, we assess these dynamics while providing new fundamental and portfolio-construction insights on fallen-angel bonds.
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White papersFixed Income Perspectives April 2023
Markets appeared optimistic amid strong macro indicators until early March, when the collapse of two US regional banks and forced sale of Credit Suisse led to a risk-off sentiment.
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White papersWith High Yield, Shorter May Be Better for Insurers’ Yields…and Capital Efficiency
With yield curves inverted in many parts of the world, investors no longer need to increase interest-rate risk to bolster yields. Instead, they can achieve the same end with shorter-duration high-yield bonds. For insurance investors that have typically shied away from high yield, we think this landscape—and the regulatory treatment—present a compelling opportunity.
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White papersLower service productivity, higher inflation?
If there is one word that our media has been able to relay in recent months, it is inflation. Price growth was the market’s problem in 2021 and it has become the public’s problem in no time. Whereas in previous periods of rising inflation, the arrival of the topic in the mainstream media more or less marked the end of the problem – let’s remember the worrying inflation of the summer of 2008 or the first quarter of 2011– this time, it is quite different.
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White papersA viewpoint on CLO markets: past, present, and future
Himani Trivedi, head of structured credit at Nuveen, shares her thoughts on the current state of the CLO markets, a lookback to 2022, and a view of what the coming year holds for CLOs.
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White papersEM Debt: Opportunities in a Riskier World
Emerging market fundamentals remain strong and continue to provide opportunities despite risks in developed markets that raise cautionary flags.
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White papersWhy, and how, investors should integrate biodiversity into fixed income portfolios
One of the fundamental features of biodiversity is that it reaches into every part of our lives – and that means the impacts of biodiversity loss are felt across investment portfolios too. In our view there isn’t an asset class or sector that would not benefit from a close consideration of how those effects might change outcomes or affect financial returns.
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PodcastRiding the Curve: Isolating Income
The big difference between 2022 and 2023 for bond investors can be summed up in one word: Income. George Bory highlights the opportunities in this week’s episode.
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White papersDe-Risking? Mind the Carbon!
Shifting a portfolio from stocks to bonds reduces investment risk, but it can also increase the portfolio’s carbon footprint. Read about a carbon-aware approach to reduce that impact and benefit the portfolio overall.
