All Government Bonds articles – Page 8
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Russia-Ukraine: an uncertain outcome calls for higher focus on liquidity
At the core of the crisis, Russian assets have become almost un-investible, with dramatic price action as the market attempts to grapple with uncertainty. European equities have suffered, anticipating the negative consequences of the war on corporate earnings, while also commodities trended higher with double digit rise across many commodities. A flight to safety move has benefited government bonds, with the US treasury yield and the Bund yield trending lower.
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The myriad of challenges – and opportunities – facing fixed income in 2022
The question of whether inflation is likely to prove temporary or more persistent is just one of the challenges facing fixed income investors this year. Buying on the dips may no longer be sufficient as the focus of central banks switches to containing inflation rather than simply rallying to support financial markets.
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Globalization: “So Why Can’t You Export Haircuts?”
It’s the year 2032. Will planes still take us to far-off lands or will VR headsets transport us, could your hair stylist live on the other side of the planet?
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Managing Duration in Multi-Asset Strategies? Be Dynamic
For most of the past decade, government bonds have contributed positive returns and a note of stability to multi-asset portfolios. But since late 2021, they’ve been much more volatile, as markets digest central banks’ transitions toward tighter monetary policy.
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The Bond Blog - EM’s Vulnerability to Rising Food Prices and Political Instability
Food items typically have a larger weight in the consumer price index (CPI) basket of emerging markets. Therefore, food price increases might require policy action on the part of central banks if they become a major source of inflation.
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China’s debt vulnerability – Defying dire predictions
Despite rising corporate defaults, China’s overall debt dynamics have not deteriorated. Its economic fundamentals appear strong enough to contain a debt-currency crisis.
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*Diversified private credit – It is about financing growth*
Investing in diversified private credit means gaining access to the stable cash flows and contained volatility of a broad range of unlisted asset classes including infrastructure and commercial real estate debt, mid-market loans and loans to small and medium-sized businesses.
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Investing in 2022: Four key market drivers
The pandemic and rising inflation were prevailing drivers of markets in 2021. But the economic squeeze which dominated 2020 finally started to loosen its grip, as the world started to get back to something resembling ‘normality’ in the second half of last year.
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Potentially volatile European markets present opportunities
Franklin Templeton Fixed Income’s David Zahn sees opportunity despite elevated levels of volatility in European bonds in 2022.
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Four insurance portfolio allocation themes for 2022 and beyond
In today’s investment landscape, how can insurers effectively construct investment portfolios to achieve their targets and balance a range of unique requirements? This paper looks at four allocation themes we believe are most relevant to insurance portfolios.
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Global corporate bonds 2022 outlook
Although global investment grade corporate bonds posted negative total returns in 2021, in large part due to rising government bond yields, excess returns were positive.
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Asset allocation – A fat (real) tail in 2022
2021 was an awkward ’steady state’ year for financial markets: bonds delivered the worst returns in a quarter of a century except for one year (1999), while equities secured top-quartile (or better) returns over the same period.[1]
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Three reasons for optimism
The technical picture for munis looks strong heading into early 2022.
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European long-income real estate: Seeking resilience in an uncertain world
As the trajectory of COVID-19 continues to evolve, Isabel Gossling looks at the implications for European real estate and long-lease strategies.
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The 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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Outlook 2022 - Bye-bye beta
Despite a fifth coronavirus wave rising as we enter the third year of the pandemic, there are reasons to be optimistic for the economic recovery, explain the Generali Insurance Asset Management Macro Research Team. In fact, a global 60-40 portfolio would have risen nearly 40% since the lows of March 2020.
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Still Looking on the Bright Side
In this Allocation Views, our Franklin Templeton Investment Solutions team believe global stocks still have greater performance potential than global bonds, reflecting only slightly slower growth expectations.
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Introduction to the Neuberger Berman Ultra Short Term Euro Bond Fund
In this short video, Portfolio Manager Antonio Serpico introduces the Neuberger Berman Ultra Short Term Euro Bond Fund, an actively managed portfolio of Euro short-term bonds, with opportunistic allocations to attractive Euro bond strategies.
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The role bonds play in a portfolio
Building a resilient and balanced portfolio should be a priority for many investors in today’s environment of heightened financial market uncertainty and volatility across a range of asset classes, including equities.
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For the Global Economy, It’s Next Stop…Policy Normalization
November is likely to mark the start of a transition phase for the global economy. For almost two years, major central banks have thrown extraordinary waves of support into shoring up economic activity and financial markets against the COVID-19-induced crisis. Now, officials in many countries seem ready to begin the march back toward a more normal policy setting.