Retailer Hotel Chocolat has announced a second issuance of its retail bond, with returns paid out to investors in chocolate instead of cash.
With developed world inflation hovering around the 1%-2% mark, Smith & Williamson's Chris Lynas explores the potential impact on bond markets.
Fixed income managers Paul Thursby and Peter Geikie-Cobb are to leave F&C later this year.
Bond investors' "desperation" for yield can lead to many funds taking too much risk at the wrong price, Invesco Perpetual's Paul Read has warned.
Could debt funds be an alternative to high yield?
Former HSBC global fixed income head Guy Dunham has been appointed head of global and aggregate at Barings.
Guy Dunham has left his role as HSBC Global Asset Management's London head of global bonds.