Finding your place in the worldwide yield slide
Victoria Hasler, head of research at Square Mile Investment Consulting and Research, urges investors to pay less attention to yields and remember why they bought bonds in the first place.
Fixed Income
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Global bond manager Church leaves Fidelity
Jeremy Church, manager across a suite of Fidelity’s fixed income offerings, has left the firm, prompting Morningstar to immediately put under review the $1.2bn (£770m) Global Inflation Linked Bond fund.
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Pictet’s multi-asset team getting creative in fixed income
Pictet Asset Management multi-asset managers Andrew Cole and Shaniel Ramjee have been getting creative in their fixed income investing, having whittled down their equities allocation to just 25%.
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BlackRock opens high income/lower risk European strategy
BlackRock has responded to investor demand for high-income and lower-risk opportunities with the unveiling of an alternative European strategy.
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PA ANALYSIS: The Fed has snookered itself
With the most anticipated interest rate decision of recent times imminent, it seems the Federal Reserve is firmly stuck between a rock and a hard place.
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IA calls for MiFIR bond rethink
The Investment Association has called for a rethink of some of the trading rules to be proposed in the details of the Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR).
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SHAM: Why I’m thinking big, stale biscuits and tickle sticks
Putting an end to any speculation, I’d like to officially rule myself out of the running as the new head of the FCA.
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JPMAM’s Eigen picks out ‘the good, bad and ugly’ in fixed income
Investors need to ‘redefine what constitutes value and safety’ and how to deploy capital into markets now changed by quantitative easing, according to JP Morgan Asset Management’s Bill Eigen.
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Bank of England has missed a trick – M&G’s Woolnough
The Bank of England has missed a trick by holding the interest rate, says M&G’s Richard Woolnough, and there could be significant ramifications.
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Santander opens income funds to intermediaries market
Santander Asset Management has responded to the post-April 2015 pension freedoms landscape by launching retail share classes for two of its income offerings.
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Don’t write off bonds yet – Spreadbury
In the latest Brewin Dolphin podcast, head of fund research, Ben Gutteridge talks to Fidelity’s Ian Spreadbury about, among other things, why there remains a decent case for investing in bonds and the reputational problem the Fed would encounter were it to revisit QE.
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US IG bonds becoming sweet spot in fixed income – Invesco
United States investment grade bonds are becoming attractive relative to other fixed income assets due to the ongoing M&A boom ‘enforcing discipline on issuers’, Invesco has said.
