Fixed income: Look before you leap
Should fixed income investors shun a ‘buy the market’ approach in favour of selective and targeted regional and credit selection?
Should fixed income investors shun a ‘buy the market’ approach in favour of selective and targeted regional and credit selection?
10 year treasury hit highest level since the GFC last week
Bond markets are preparing for ‘higher for longer’ interest rates despite falling inflation
Global interest rate rises of this magnitude have never been seen before, according to the Payden & Rygel managing director
Fund manager David Aujla, who runs Invesco’s Summit Growth multi-asset portfolios, explains where he is seeing opportunities
T Rowe Price head of multi-asset solutions believes inflation will soon peak and the correlation between bonds and equities will drop
‘We think building a position in 10-year US treasuries is now a serious consideration’ says one portfolio manager
Spread between the two-year and 10-year treasury now 0.09%
Morningstar Investment Management has substantially raised the cash levels in its Real Return multi-asset range as it braces for interest rate normalisation and higher volatility.
To navigate the hazards of the bond markets, one fund manager looks to US and emerging market debt for value while a fund selector finds opportunity in alternative fixed income.
With yields verging on 3%, investors are starting to see US government bonds attractive as a safe haven, but is that the case as volatility has crept back into markets and equities have started to sell off?
Yields on the US 10-year treasury were last at 3% in January 2014, but with the US Federal Reserve set to hike rates at least three times this year industry insiders argue it’s matter of when, not if, they will again break that barrier.