M&G’s Woolnough addresses difficult year for £23bn income fund
UK’s biggest retail fund has 61% held in investment grade bonds, its highest ever weighting
UK’s biggest retail fund has 61% held in investment grade bonds, its highest ever weighting
Baillie Gifford has promoted two staff to co-manager level on two of its bond funds to replace outgoing heavyweights, Stephen Rodger and Donald Phillips.
As investors head in to the new year, three fixed income fund managers at Kames Capital give their views on what 2018 could hold in store for high yield, strategic bonds and investment grade.
The benign conditions that prompted investors to overlook investment grade fixed income in favour of high yield could soon come to an end according to Hermes’ credit specialist, Fraser Lundie.
Dalton Strategic Partnership has launched a European credit fund aiming to exploit long and short opportunities and generate returns of 5-7% p.a.
Wells Fargo Asset Management has launched a USD Investment Grade Credit portfolio, a sub-fund of its Worldwide Luxembourg Ucits fund.
Eurozone investment grade and government bonds continued to see outflows as inflation expectations rose, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch research.
A month after the Bank of England’s stimulus announcement, PIMCO UK credit manager Ketish Pothalingam said there is still untapped value in sterling credit, which he bets will weather a 12-month slowdown in United Kingdom growth.
Widespread investor aversion to minimal bond yield spreads is buoying equity income and alternatives, but could investment grade and sovereigns soon be back in fashion?
There are options outside strategic bond funds for those fixed income investors looking for a high yield/investment grade allocation.
Emerging market debt and high yield bonds, which have had some pretty high inflow volatility recently, are now firmly back in favour with European investors.
JP Morgan bets fixed income will positively surprise as the West follows Japan