Growing demand for corporate bonds

Gartmore fund manager Eran Peleg sees investors looking for yield increasingly turning to the corporate bond sector

Eran Peleg, manager of the Gartmore Corporate Bond fund, believes investors looking for yields similar to those available in the early 1990s will find them in the corporate bond sector. Peleg manages Gartmore's two existing corporate bond funds: the £200m, five-star, A-rated, Corporate Bond and £150m, High Yield Corporate Bond portfolios. Peleg joined Gartmore's fixed income team in 1997 and took over running the Corporate Bond fund in June 1999. He is also to manage the Gartmore Monthly Income fund, which is being launched on 8 February, as revealed in Investment Week in November last ...