The current backdrop for fixed income markets looks particularly supportive and favours further yield compression and outperformance by corporate and emerging market bonds.
Markets are rebounding strongly after the indiscriminate drop of last year.
Despite a benign inflationary outlook there are still compelling yields to be found in the corporate bond market
There has been a lot of interest in corporate bond funds this year as investors have sought to make their cash work harder against a backdrop of low policy rates.
Old Mutual Asset Managers is launching a Dublin-domiciled bond fund for its head of fixed interest Stewart Cowley.
Both government and short-dated corporate bond yields have hit new lows against a backdrop of rising equity markets.
The year of the corporate bond fund has been a tug of war between duration risk and systemic risk
HSBC Private Bank has appointed Willem Sels as head of its fixed income strategy for its UK Private Bank.
The high yield bond market has been one of the better performing asset classes during 2009, delivering both a high income and capital gains.