All Fixed Income articles – Page 67
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Europe’s Most Endangered Species
As fiscal “hawks” fade from the scene, the continent’s economic policy is transforming in ways that will boost growth long after the pandemic ends.
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Central bank digital currency: clean atomic monetary energy or financial fallout risk?
In a search for the monetary theory of everything, Fiorino delves into the emerging field of central bank digital currencies…
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Q&A With ARRC’s Tom Wipf: The Shift to Term SOFR
CME Group’s Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) Term Rates have seen extensive client interest since the Alternative Reference Rates Committee (ARRC) endorsed them on July 29, with the move marking the last step in the ARRC’s Paced Transition Plan from LIBOR.
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A new perspective: Diversified private debt portfolios for insurers
Private debt offers a broad and diverse investment universe that is often well-suited to an insurer’s balance sheet. However, approaches that focus on certain sub-types of private debt could create barriers to effective investment over time and inadvertently narrow the opportunity set.
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Sustainability-linked bonds do not fit our impact framework
Our approach to impact investing, established in 2007, focuses on Use of Proceeds (UoP) and transparent, relevant impact measurement and reporting frameworks. We direct capital to social and environmental outcomes and continually engage with clients, industry working groups, issuers and underwriters on the merits of this approach.
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Asset Allocation: Think portfolio construction
Using a factors-first lens to find opportunities in today’s alternatives market
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HY default rates: recent and expected trends
Persistent supportive funding conditions and the improved macro picture are consistent with a current and expected benign picture for US and European default cycles, which are likely to remain on a downward trend in the coming months.
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Special Europe: Investing in the recovery
As the European economy is recovering from the largest economic shock of modern history, we are revising our growth and inflation assumptions to the upside. Although the path to recovery is uneven among member states, we believe the EU will see two years of strong growth while inflation should revert below 2%.
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Podcast
Turning a New Leaf in Chinese Investing
Historically, as the second largest economy in the world, China has presented a myriad of opportunities to investors worldwide. However, due to the regulatory changes outlined by the Chinese government, trends suggest that investors have started to reconsider their allocations in China.
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ECB Policy and Bunds Are Set to Move
Ahead of the key European Central Bank policy meeting on September 9, we offer our views on what will likely change, what may not, and what it could mean for the Bund yield.
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Case study: Trade the When Issued (WI) security a month in advance using Micro Treasury Yield futures
Learn how investors can use smaller-sized, yield-based Treasury futures contracts to roll when-issue in advance, less expensively than previously possible.
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European investors lead search for innovative investments amid changing market dynamics
Nuveen has seen significant growth from European clients over the past five years. As investors come to terms with the new normal amid the global pandemic, we are now seeing new opportunities to meet European clients’ changing investment needs.
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All for One, One for All
Available data suggests that a balanced risk allocation to real assets may be the most robust way to mitigate the impact of upticks in inflation.
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Europe’s Openness Leans against its Productivity Headwinds
PGIM Fixed Income explain the benefits seen by the European Union as it continues to operate as the world’s most open economic region. Read how this competitive backdrop helps improve productivity and growth.
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What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Taper
Many investors, perhaps scarred by 2013’s “taper tantrum,” are focused on the likelihood that the Federal Reserve will start reducing its bond purchases in the next few months. We don’t think the taper will be disruptive—the Fed has learned from the market’s adverse reaction to that surprise policy turn. But we do see a taper coming soon.
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Clearing hurdle targets amid rising rates
For much of the past decade, the endowment and foundation community has expressed concerns about the challenge of meeting their spending requirements while maintaining funding levels in an environment of low yields and muted return expectations.
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Inflation Starts Trending Down (Slowly)
After weeks of markets pricing in our slower-growth scenario, the strong U.S. employment report kicked off a slight shift in the narrative.
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How to unlock opportunities in the sponsor-less SME loan market
Sponsor-less transactions are largely misunderstood. With greater liquidity and mounting interest from institutional investors, can we expect an influx of non-sponsor transactions funded by direct lenders?
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The Investment Podcast: Inflation - is it real?
From the ‘Great Moderation’ of the 1980’s, to the current day, the inflation environment has been relatively benign, with the policies of recent years mostly concerned with preventing deflation. However, as economies begin to rebound from the Covid crisis, inflation has ticked up. Is the current rise in inflation transitory, or could we see Central banks move to tighten policy?
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What are the risks in high yield real estate debt?
The high returns of high yield real estate debt are attracting more and more investors. For investors less familiar with the asset class, we explain the key risks and how to manage them.