Fixed income
20 May 2013
M&G Investments has boosted its fixed income team, hiring Andrius Isciukas from HSBC Asset Management to work across the fund range.
13 May 2013
Investment Week is delighted to reveal the finalists for our 18th annual Fund Manager of the Year Awards.
13 May 2013
Christine Johnson, manager of the Old Mutual Corporate Bond and Monthly Income funds, gives some examples of names which are helping meet client demands in a difficult fixed income environment.
13 May 2013
Hugh Hendry has backed Japanese equities to continue their stellar start to 2013, but is also boosting exposure to sovereign bonds on concerns Japan's recovery will have harmful effects elsewhere.
02 May 2013
Jim Leaviss, head of retail fixed income at M&G, has outlined five key challenges incoming Bank of England governor Mark Carney faces when he takes up the post in July.
29 April 2013
Lakshman Harendran, member of the global convertible bond team at RWC Partners, argues that convertibles are an ideal investment for today’s high-risk, low-yield environment.
29 April 2013
Kira Nickerson discovers that some fund managers are beginning to re-examine this previously unpopular asset class.
29 April 2013
With banks and brokers under pressure to raise capital levels and reduce risk in the aftermath of the credit crisis, many trading activities have been substantially (and permanently) cut back.
25 April 2013
Standard Life Investments' head of credit Andrew Sutherland is to retire from the group after a 30-year career.
23 April 2013
Bond managers have been steadily increasing the use of credit default swaps (CDS) in their portfolios as liquidity issues which emerged in the corporate bond space last year continue to plague the sector.
23 April 2013
Chris Bowie has taken bank exposure to its lowest ever level in his £285m Ignis Corporate Bond fund amid growing fears bondholders will be wiped out if there is another crisis.
22 April 2013
Bill Gross, the manager of the world's largest bond fund, said Chancellor George Osborne needs to ditch austerity and 'spend money' if the UK is to emerge from its current economic malaise.
17 April 2013
Liquidity in fixed income is a topic that investors have increasingly focused on since the onset of the credit crisis, and rightly so.
12 April 2013
Iain Stealey and Nick Gartside, managers of the JPM Strategic Bond fund, present the case for widening the scope of fixed income investing.
12 April 2013
Investors flocked to buy index-linked gilts in a Debt Management Office(DMO) auction yesterday, despite real yields being the lowest since the bonds were first offered in the early 1980s.
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