Fixed Income – Page 31
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Joseph Mariathasan: Accessing China’s bond markets
Bond Connect and other programmes aim to open up a huge market in onshore China bonds. What’s still stopping investors?
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Folksam invests SEK2.8bn in World Bank bond to combat food waste
Swedish pension fund is sole investor in IBRD’s sustainable development bond
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Factor investing can apply to bond investing, says Amundi research
While factor investing is now a common approach for equities, it is still in its infancy in the bond universe
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Mandate roundup: Brunel activates search for ‘flagship’ equities fund
Plus: Austrian banking institute and Asian institutional investor searches live on IPE Quest
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UK public pension pool names corporate bond managers
Fidelity and Neuberger Berman bag mandate for £44bn investment collaboration
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NewsMandate roundup: €300m up for grabs in trio of IPE Quest tenders [updated]
Three investors are hunting managers for mandates via IPE’s RFP service, IPE Quest. £200m global equities mandate A UK pension fund is searching for ideas from fund managers for a £200m (€233m) global equities mandate, via IPE Quest. Search DS-2514 is for an actively managed, global large-cap equity allocation. The ...
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Chart of the Week: Institutions pump money into ETFs
Allocations to exchange-traded funds grew dramatically in 2018, according to Greenwich Associates
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FeaturesFixed income, rates, currencies: Global economic discomfort
Fed’s wait-and-see approach to monetary policy adds to contradictary signals
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Asset Class ReportsRatings: When corporates can trump sovereigns
Several factors can place corporate credit ratings higher than that of the domicile country
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FeaturesIPE Quest Expectations Indicator: March 2019
When uncertainty hangs over the financial markets, indices tend to converge. That is true for net sentiment of equities
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NewsFund managers expected to escape no-deal Brexit nightmare
Also: FCA publishes ‘near-final’ rules and guidance for transition to a post-Brexit world
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Dutch pension schemes report inflation-linked increases
UHigh funding levels mean rewards for members of Unilever, Shell and SNS Reaal schemes
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AP2 curbs investment losses in 2018 with Chinese bond gains
Gothenburg-based fund is first of Sweden’s national pension funds to report on 2018 returns
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NEST looks to add global corporate bonds to growing portfolio
Tender launched for DC master trust’s first allocation to global investment grade bonds
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S&P upping transparency in credit rating agency ESG ‘race to the top’
Credit rating agency making its ESG analysis more transparent, as per PRI recommendations
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Janus Henderson’s Bill Gross to retire
Global unconstrained and total return funds to transition to new management later this month
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Campaign group turns climate change spotlight on bondholders
ShareAction calls on bond investors to use their leverage to force change at companies
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FeaturesFixed income, rates, currencies: Clouds to darken further
Markets have pulled back from US rate hike forecasts; Euro credit looks set to be most vulnerable to quantative tightening; The European elections in May look set to see a surge in support for populist parties
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FeaturesIPE Expectation Indicator: February 2019
The end of 2018 saw expectations shift meaningfully in certain markets, and then pause. It also saw trends accelerate, then pause. For most of us, the pauses were welcome, because the shifts were related to broad market plans
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ERAFP awards ‘unbenchmarked’ EM corporate bond mandate
Portfolio run by Aberdeen to comprise conviction holdings meeting certain ESG criteria
