Bonds

A third round of quantitative easing in the US would lead to the collapse of the dollar, M&G's Jim Leaviss has warned.

Artemis' James Foster has taken off a 12% short position in UK gilts and US treasuries in the past few weeks, in the view the MPC will not hike rates until August.

GAM has launched a global bond fund for managers Tim Haywood and Daniel Sheard aiming to deliver between 5% and 10% per annum for investors through a wide spectrum of fixed income securities.

PIMCO's Bill Gross has urged investors to focus on emerging market debt and shun US government bonds amid low rates and rising inflation which have left treasuries looking "overvalued for decades".

ON BONDS

SWIP's investment director of aggregate bonds Sebastian Mackay has left the firm to pursue other opportunities in the industry.

If bond markets are the only indices you look at to judge world events, you could be forgiven for thinking the past month or so has been fairly uneventful.

ON BONDS

Thames River has confirmed it is to launch a global emerging markets absolute return fund for Kristof Bulkai and Hugo Rogers on 1 June.

Malika Gulabani has replaced Paul Grice as lead manager on the £504m F&C Global Bond fund following his departure from the group.