Bonds

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.

With no apparent likelihood of moving to an exchange-traded system, the main problem with bond fund performance figures is the need to improve disclosures

Corporate bonds are far more complex than most investors realise and in order to choose the best one, both the type of bond and how you access the asset class need to be taken into account

AXA Distribution managers Marwood and Walsh give the outlook for equity and bond markets

Award-winning manager keeps it simple, liquid and transparent to rank first in Specialist Bond group

Back to school. Back to work. Back to reality. Back to facing the first anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers.

Aviva Investors head of credit Mark Wauton will temporarily assume management of its Distribution fund after Dominic White's decision to leave the group.

Over the past quarter, we have witnessed the continuation of the corporate bond market rally, with optimism levels seemingly high over future growth.