All Fixed Income articles – Page 73
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White papersThe Fight Against Inflation Has Begun
We think that inflation, central bank policy and real rates will define the battlefield for markets in 2022—but will the most volatile skirmishes come sooner or later in the year?
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PodcastInvestment Symposium Series – Olivier Blanchard on US inflation…
In this time of profound change for societies, economies, and cultures, our goal is to provide investors with thought leadership on the factors shaping our age of transformation and the impact for financial markets and investing.
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VideoLet’s Get Physical: Unlocking Real Assets for Liability-Driven Investors
While many financial concepts and securities can sometimes feel abstract, real assets are refreshingly tangible. As investments that enable the everyday functioning of society, real assets have intrinsic value and typically generate stable, predictable cash flows that can act as an inflation-hedge. These qualities mean real assets are increasingly important sources of portfolio diversification.
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White papersCentral Bank Palooza
The FOMC showed a hawkish shift but Fed Chair Jerome Powell successfully unwound some to suggest policy normalization won’t derail the recovery.
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White papersRe-entanglement: why debt and reality must reconnect
The long-term relationship between credit quality and the global unemployment rate appears to have broken down of late. But why? Fiorino once again probes the debt universe in search of deeper meaning…
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WebinarInvesting Through Climate Risk
Across every asset class, investors are facing the reality and urgency of climate change and its associated risks.
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White papersFixed income outlook: Is the market overly hawkish?
After the bond bear market of 2021, valuations look more attractive in an environment where interest rate rises may already be priced in.
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White papersInflation Hits a Fork in the Road
A great divergence is coming into view on inflation, with the U.S. set to stand apart.
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VideoSolving for 2022: Brad Tank on Fixed Income
As 2021 concludes, the leaders of our investment platforms got together to debate and identify the key themes that they think will guide investment decisions in 2022.
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White papersIs This the Start of a Labor Force Liftoff?
Volatility amid the Omicron variant continues to dominate, including new restrictions in the U.K. that led the pound to hit new YTD lows.
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White papersOmicron, Pi, Rho…
Omicron will not be the last variant that surfaces, especially with about half the Greek alphabet still unused. Much is still unknown about the risks, but they add another level of complexity to the outlook.
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White papersFed officials’ discomfort is growing with the inflation overshoot: why it will remain cautious
US consumer prices jumped by 6.2% in October, their highest level in 30 years! Deteriorating inflation data have pushed markets towards forecasting a faster pace of tapering and a more rapid removal of accommodation in 2022. We expect the Fed to act gradually as Covid remains a major risk and as the Fed would like to see a higher participation rate.
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White papersESG bond market bound to deliver another record year of growth
Global ESG bond markets are bound to deliver another record year of new issuance volumes, led by broad-based dynamic activity in all its major segments. In the first nine months of the year, combined global issuance of green, social, sustainability and sustainability-linked bonds were already equal to 145% of global ESG bond supply in full year 2020.
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White papersOur best investment ideas
Broadly speaking, valuations across public equities around the world appear full, but we see opportunities across sectors and markets. We expect valuations to be relatively flat next year.
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White papersFocusing on the evidence: 360°, Q4 2021
What is our current view of fixed income markets? And where do we see the best relative value? In our latest edition of 360°, Andrew ‘Jacko’ Jackson and his team of specialist investors consider the areas that have the potential to deliver superior risk-adjusted returns.
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White papersWhat Rhymes With “Transitory”?
The search continues for a word that describes inflation that will not derail the recovery.
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White papersDoes the end of China’s love affair with property spell heartbreak for investors?
Beneath the surface of the world’s most important industry sector, all is not well, and investors – directly or indirectly exposed – will be profoundly impacted by what the Chinese property sector does next, writes Robin Usson, CFA, Credit Analyst
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White papersMacroeconomic Outlook 2022: Compression, decompression, absorption
2020 was a year of massive compression of economic activity. 2021 was a year of fast decompression, with demand catching up quickly as we were reopening, exerting significant pressure on supply, triggering a rise in consumer prices unseen in decades.
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White papersInvestment Strategy outlook 2022: Coping with modest rate increases
As we head towards the second anniversary of the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic the disease remains one of the key worries for investors. It continues to have the ability to disrupt demand and supply and for this to be reflected in bouts of “risk-off” behaviour in financial markets.
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White papersLessons from COP26 ‘We have to realise that we can’t enjoy everything the way we have in perpetuity’
Covid may well have set back the march toward a greener planet, says Mitch Reznick, CFA, Head of Research and Sustainable Fixed Income.
