Fixed Income – Page 54
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News
Mandate roundup: Dorset County, Wiltshire Pension Fund, Loomis Sayles
Dorset pension fund targets two managers for £480m in global active, smart-beta equity strategies
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Special Report
Convertible bonds: key lessons from 150 years of issuance
Beat Thoma outlines some of the key lessons from 150 years of convertible bond issuance
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Features
Asset Allocation: The big picture
As the US economy continues to recover, the hour when the Fed starts to tighten is approaching
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Special Report
Convertible bond valuations remain attractive
Subdued volatility has taken the options within convertible bonds down to very attractive valuations
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Special Report
Investors warm up to bank contingent convertible bonds
Investors have grown in confidence with bank contingent convertible bonds as their confidence in bank stability has risen
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Asset Class Reports
High Yield: Oil, banks and rates
Martin Steward finds the diversity of high yield reflected in three very different kinds of risk run behind similar-looking headline exposures
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Special Report
Convertible bond performance: Best of both worlds
The hybrid characteristics of convertible securities provide strategic benefits through economic cycles
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Special Report
'CoCos': bondholder's friends or foes?
There are complexities associated with banks’ contingent convertibles, or ’CoCos’, but this, combined with a more resilient, less systemically-linked industry, is a source of value
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Features
Corporate bonds for the long run
The post-crisis world of bond investing is favouring the ‘new’ old-fashioned approach known as buy-and-maintain credit
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Special Report
GDP-linked sovereign bonds: Would investors buy them?
Some emerging markets have experimented with GDP-linked sovereign borrowing, and the Greek finance minister is the latest to discuss the idea. We ask whether investors would buy it
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Special Report
Convertibles and Solvency II: Commentary
Nicolas Delrue argues that mixing convertible bonds with equities preserves equity upside exposure with lower downside risk
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Special Report
Convertibles and Solvency II: Preaching to the unconverted
Joseph Mariathasan asks whether convertible bonds might offer Solvency II-regulated investors some equity upside with a limited capital charge
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Special ReportHybrid Securities: Financial duck-rabbits
Recently someone from the Outer Hebrides posted online a photo of a dress, the colour of which had apparently caused endless debate among family and friends
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Asset Class Reports
High Yield: US issuers, euro spreads
A substantial spread differential is attracting US investment-grade issuers across the ocean to issue bonds in euros
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Special Report
Non-financial hybrid securities: Fixed-income exotica
Hybrids have taken off because they marry the current needs of both issuers and fixed-income investors. David Turner looks at how this sweet deal could go sour
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Special Report
Hybrid securities revolution is here to stay
In just three years corporate and financial hybrid securities have become a major new feature of the fixed-income landscape
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Asset Class ReportsOil price impact on high-yield
The oil price fallout in high-yield has so far been contained within sub-sectors of US energy and migh have opened up energy sector value opportunities
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NewsBank of England to run rule over asset managers' liquidity strategies
UK central bank to work with regulator to analyse asset managers’ approach to managing liquidity in stressed markets
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News
Bonds, alternatives drive 12% return at DAX-listed company schemes
Liabilities on rise together with assets, consultancies warn
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Vontobel makes inroads into UK with TwentyFour AM stake
Swiss bank’s asset manager increases UK presence with cash purchase of fixed income manager
