Bonds

FIXED INCOME

M&G Investments has boosted its fixed income team, hiring Andrius Isciukas from HSBC Asset Management to work across the fund range.

The high yield bond market is set to "suffer a bout of indigestion", according to Phil Milburn, manager of the Kames High Yield Bond fund.

FMYA 2013

BONDS

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.

Artemis Strategic Bond manager James Foster has avoided taking a hit on Co-operative Bank bonds by selling his position two weeks before today's sell-off.

ON BONDS

Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP) has promoted Dan Daldry to co-manage its Absolute Return Bond fund alongside James Carver.

Veteran investor Warren Buffett has told investors Ben Bernanke's interest rate policy has been "brutal" for holders of bonds and punishing to savers.