Bank bond analysts could once ply their craft among the two well-defined research fields of macro-economics and financial accounts. But, as Fiorino discovers, understanding financial institution fixed income securities now requires analysis that stretches across traditional boundaries of knowledge.
A growing number of institutional investors are looking to incorporate ESG factors into the fixed-income investment process, alongside traditional financial factors.
The first point we need to make is that we think the interest rate environment we are now in is going to persist for a while. In the words of the song – ‘Now is Tomorrow’ and investors need to optimize for now. Lower rates and flatter yield curves are no blip.