At its August meeting, the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) halved the bank rate to 0.25% in addition to implementing a new Term Funding Structure and a purchase of up to £70bn UK corporate and government bonds.
Wrong to lump all strategies together
Scott Ingham, investment director at Heartwood Investment Management, looks at the optimal risk/return approach to investing in bonds at a time when yields are unsustainably low
The global economic and investment backdrop was altered by the UK's decision to leave the European Union towards the end of June, writes Brooks Macdonald's Jonathan Webster-Smith.
What are the manager's key concerns?
The bonds of financial institutions, specifically the more risky ones such as Additional Tier 1 (AT1) or 'CoCos', look particularly desirable again, according to Vontobel AM's Mondher Bettaieb.