fixed income

Scottish Widows Investment Partnership's Daniel McKernan is to join Standard Life Investments as head of sterling investment grade credit.

AXA IM's global head of fixed income Theo Zemek has warned bond markets are becoming increasingly unpredictable and says investors "should not touch" long-dated debt of any variety.

Stephen Snowden of Kames Capital on why investors should be wary of retail bonds, risks from certain kinds of innovation in the bond industry and why equity managers are enjoying some bond-bashing.

Concerns over a potential end to US quantitative easing saw global fixed income markets slump in May, but further sudden sell-offs may be less likely.

The high yield market has got a little ahead of itself, leaving the outlook for the rest of the year looking less rosy, says M&G's Stefan Isaacs.

Kames Capital is planning to launch an "aggressive" rates fund to prepare for an eventual increase in interest rates on government bonds.

Ian Spreadbury's £3.5bn Fidelity MoneyBuilder Income fund has widened its remit to allow the manager to buy non-sterling corporate debt in a move to boost liquidity and performance.

T. Rowe Price has hired Arif Husain, director of European fixed income and UK and portfolio management at AllianceBernstein, as its new head of international fixed income.

Fidelity's Peter Khan discusses his outlook for high yield bond markets.

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