All Fixed Income articles – Page 82
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Will Washington Deliver a Holiday Miracle?
U.S. initial claims increased amid rising COVID cases, adding more fuel to the stimulus negotiations fire growing in Congress. China activity data for November should improve, and the Bank of England is expected to remain dovish given the pandemic and Brexit.
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Global IG: Don’t Underestimate Changed Behaviours
We came into 2020 on the back of one of the longest expansion phases ever, with increasingly loose monetary policy extending the growth cycle. Because of that growth and low interest rates, companies had been gearing up and corporate leverage was actually relatively high going into the pandemic.
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Debt deliveries: US consumers bat on in fading light
The US consumer has long been in the top order of the global economy but, as Fiorino discovers, the days of debt-fuelled hit-outs on tame pitches could soon be over.
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Portfolio allocation in times of uncertainty
The temptation to react to every headline, every market move is often irresistible. Never more so than in an environment that screams uncertainty. But experience shows that successful investors have learned to stick to their strategies, regardless of bright, shiny objects that threaten to distract.
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Fixed Income: Security Selection A Key Driver Of Outperformance
The US Federal Reserve’s aggressive response to the coronavirus pandemic has driven yields on safe-haven debt to near zero, leaving “low-risk” portfolios increasingly susceptible to interest rate-driven price volatility.
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Facts and Fantasies about the Green Bond Premium
The green bond market has increased exponentially since the first issuance in 2007. Nevertheless, we continue to observe a large imbalance between supply and demand because of the huge appetite from institutional ESG investors. The purpose of this study is then to determine if green bonds present lower yields than conventional bonds in the secondary market. This yield difference is known as the green bond premium or greenium.
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Seeking income – the case for investing in private corporate debt
Pension funds with current cashflow requirements depend on a steady stream of payouts, but face a number of unique challenges in their search for income against a backdrop of lower-for-longer yields and volatile investment conditions brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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2021 Investment Outlook Report
Our comprehensive Outlook Report addresses in further detail both the macro and asset class specific themes we have identified and examines the evolution of the investment environment over the past 12 months.
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Generating Interest
Must investors settle for sub-zero real returns on their cash allocations?
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Why it’s so Hard to go Bankrupt… And Why That Will Change
Massive policy response has firms awash in liquidity, but 2021 will bring solvency challenges that investors need to watch closely.
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2021 outlook: Dark tunnel. Bright light
Macro risks associated with the coronavirus have loomed over global markets and economies for nearly a year, and will continue for at least several months. But beyond this dark tunnel, we see a more normalised environment driven by fundamentals. Nuveen’s Global Investment Committee explores
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Awash in Liquidity: Stress-Testing Corporate Balance Sheets
The next stage of the recovery may put increased stress on some sectors and many firms…
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Cautiously optimistic on US high yield
After a volatile year, Mark Durbiano CFA®, Senior Vice President and Senior Portfolio Manager from the Federated Hermes Inc. office in Pittsburgh, remains hopeful for a better 2021.
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Heading into 2021, what do we think about credit markets?
We think that a combination of improving fundamentals and ongoing monetary stimulus will push spreads towards new record tight levels. We see also room for spread compression in high yield. Sustainably low financing costs make high debt levels much more manageable. Consequently, investors should now focus more on the ability of companies to generate profits rather than their level of debt.
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Macroeconomic picture - December 2020
United States: after a record contraction in Q2, and an extraordinary rebound in Q3, we expect a significant deceleration in Q4, influenced by the new rise in Covid-19 cases and given the signs of a progressive deceleration in several economic and behavioral indicators. Next year’s growth outlook remains supported by the supportive mix of monetary and fiscal policy.
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GIS Euro Corporate Short Term Bond | Q&A with the Fund manager
Year to date the strategy is outperforming the Barclays Capital Euro Corporate 1-3 Year Index by +2.66%* proving its ability to navigate rough waters while maintaining alpha-generating ideas
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Replay Webinar | Investing in credit 26 11 2020
Credit is set to play a significantly bigger role in the future of returns. Central banks’ support will continue to provide stability to the sector but companies’ fundamental are deteriorating and defaults are rising, how to set the scene in the current covid - disrupted credit environment? During this insightful debate, our boutiques’ experts analysed the credit space under various angles:
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High Demand, Tight Supply: Private Debt Post-Coronavirus
We think private debt fared well relative to publicly traded credit during the coronavirus volatility, but will really differentiate itself in the years following the crisis.
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2021 Outlook: The Uneven Recovery
The recovery in many ways looks real and durable—but it also looks uneven and, in some cases, quite unpredictable. In this discussion, investment professionals from the public and private markets discuss where they expect to see risks and opportunities in the year ahead.
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Factor Investing and ESG in the Corporate Bond Market Before and During the COVID-19 Crisis
The objective of this paper is to illustrate the factor investing space in corporate bonds before and during the COVID-19 crisis and is the natural extension of our prior analysis on both the new alternative credit factors and the ESG integration in credit.