All Fixed Income articles – Page 56
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Senior Secured Loans: Why Now?
With further rate hikes on the horizon and volatility testing financial markets, loans are gaining traction for their potential to offer protection against both credit and interest rate risk.
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Bank Loans: Turning the Fed’s Lemons Into Lemonade
Bank loans are among a handful of debt investments that could thrive in an environment where interest rates are poised to move higher.
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A more fragmented Emerging Markets world amid the Russia-Ukraine crisis
Although it is still difficult to anticipate how macro fundamentals will be impacted through this crisis, because of the uncertainty of its evolution and final outcome, our perspective is that the crisis is negatively affecting the growth outlook and raising inflationary pressures.
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Private credit markets – staying the course
As volatility and uncertainty buffet publicly-traded markets amid headwinds, how can long-term investors safeguard their returns? Major central banks appear out-to raise rates this year, yet floating-rate private credit could offer attractive protection in a period of higher inflation, in our view. Private lenders also proved their mettle to a range of borrowers through the global pandemic, staying the course even as liquid markets briefly dried up.
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Sustainability-linked bonds: like Marmite for markets?
Sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) have grown rapidly since 2019 but the market’s preferred method for punishing companies that miss sustainability targets is flawed, argues Mitch Reznick, Federated Hermes Head of Sustainable Fixed Income.
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Facing Up to the Biodiversity Challenge
Biodiversity loss now competes with climate change as the principal challenge for sustainable finance. However, this crisis has not been addressed with the same urgency by regulators, governments, corporations, or the financial sector.
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How to Get the Most From Private Placement Debt
Private Placements can offer fixed income investments with enhanced diversification, risk-adjusted yield and downside mitigation, and as demand grows, we believe investors could benefit from an independent route into the market that is better aligned with their needs.
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Q&A: impact of the Russia-Ukraine conflict on emerging market debt
Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine, which has become Europe’s largest ground war in generations, has impacted millions of people and triggered a large-scale humanitarian crisis as vulnerable Ukrainians take shelter or flee their homes. The intensification and spread of the conflict is deeply troubling and is having a devastating impact on those people caught in the crisis.
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Latin America: Navigating Shifting Political Winds
Latin America is navigating shifting political winds, as the pandemic has magnified the chronic income inequality gaps in the region.
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Expectations for Fixed Income
The COVID-19 pandemic, coupled by a range of policies aimed at mitigating its impact, has triggered a return to levels of inflation unseen for 40 years.
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War, Inflation, and Markets
Investors appear to be refocusing on pre-war concerns about economic fundamentals—but finding that this horrific conflict has exacerbated them.
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Securitisation – A source of short-term investment diversification
After years of abundant liquidity and low interest rates, investors are becoming more and more attuned to a pending regime change. Monetary policy is being recalibrated to contain inflation, raising volatility in bond markets. With inflation set to be higher for longer fixed coupon bonds are vulnerable.
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Multi-strategy investing for a new era
Interview with Mauro Ratto, Fund Manager and Chief Investment Officer at Plenisfer Investments – part of the Generali Investments platform, an ecosystem of asset management firms.
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Fed Ready to Tighten the Screws on Inflation
The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points this week. The central bank also signaled that it’s likely to keep raising rates at every meeting well into the second half of the year, and made it clear that it will start paring its balance sheet soon.
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As Rates Rise, Financials Can Shine
Mutual Series’ analysts see value opportunities in the financials sector as the interest-rate environment turns more favorable in the United States and European banks see greater clarity about the impact of the Russia-Ukraine war.
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A Time to Tighten
The military and economic responses to Russia’s war in Ukraine continue to garner attention, as ongoing disruptions in oil and agriculture flows will add to inflation pressures in much of the world.
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Ukraine war: economic, policy and market implications
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has sharply altered the global economic and financial outlook. It has increased the stagflation risk, making the life of central banks ever more difficult.
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The Fed to Markets: We Got This
The Federal Reserve’s announcement at the end of its FOMC meeting on March 16, 2022 surprised on the hawkish side, with the updated projections for the Fed funds rate signaling that it is “all in” on the fight against inflation.
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Fixed Income Amid Inflation
What does the current inflationary environment mean for multi-sector fixed income portfolios?
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SFDR Unpacked: What to Look for in Article 8 and 9 Portfolios
European investors are struggling to understand new rules designed to confirm the environmental, social and governance (ESG) credentials of portfolios. Since regulatory guidelines are vague, asset managers must provide a clear framework to show how their products fit sustainable investing classifications.