The longest losing streak for 10-year US treasuries since 2006, coupled with a marked rise in other ‘safe haven' bond yields, poses some difficult questions for bond investors.
Legg Mason has added a fixed income fund to its UK onshore range, to be run by its US-based subsidiary Brandywine Global.
PIMCO's Bill Gross is moving from the offensive to the defensive as he calls time on the ‘total return' strategy he has pursued over the past three decades.
The £ Corporate Bond sector topped the IMA's best-seller list last month with net retail sales of £303m, the highest level seen since August 2010.
As investors start to take on more risk we ask managers for their strategies in this environment.
Old Mutual Asset Managers' bond fund manager Stewart Cowley has warned investors in gilt funds face major headwinds in 2012, after falls in yields to record lows left them with little protection from coupons if prices start to come down.
Madrid-based hedge fund Vega Asset Management has threatened to take legal action against officials negotiating Greece's debt restructuring if its bond losses turn out to be too deep.