fixed income

SECTOR REPORT

Pictet Asset Management has launched an absolute return bond fund to be managed by co-head of global and regional bonds Andres Sanchez Balcazar.

Last year was brutal for many fixed income investors as talk of tapering in the US and the great rotation to equities pushed up core bond yields. But which portfolios protected investors regardless - and could do so again this year?

Goldman Sachs and Citigroup have both reported disappointing profits today, as income comes under pressure from a fall in bond trading.

Standard Life Investments has launched a short duration credit fund following the conversion of its existing Select Income fund.

Invesco Perpetual's Paul Read is maintaining high liquidity levels across all the group's bond funds at the start of this year as "difficult" markets persist.

Pioneer Investments' head of European fixed income, Tanguy Le Saout, has identified four key fixed income themes for investors to watch in 2014.

A year hyped as the start of a great rotation from bonds into equities actually saw more of a trickle out of fixed income, but it was not plain sailing for bond funds.

J.P. Morgan Asset Management (JPMAM) is to bring a series of bond funds into the UK market as part of an expansion of its fixed income range.

Jupiter has written to unitholders in Ariel Bezalel's £1.6bn fund, asking them to vote on plans which would give the manager wider powers to use derivatives to take short positions.