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Fixed Income Boutique
Fixed Income Quarterly
Each quarter, our experts from the Fixed Income Boutique deliver actionable insights to help you make sense of the global fixed income universe. They uncover key risks, opportunities, and trends.
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Flash Fixed Income
Taking inspiration from the “flash” economic indicators that offer markets a preview of the final numbers, Flash Fixed Income is a monthly outlook that keeps investors ahead of the curve by dissecting the major trends across the global bond markets.
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The duration deliberation
TwentyFour Asset Management's Chris Bowie discusses the underweight duration across all of our outcome driven strategies, how this phase is now coming to an end, and why we are beginning to increase our interest rate duration in all of our funds.
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Opportunities within European credit
Positioning and fixed income markets have remained quite tricky this year, however credit markets have continued to perform very strongly. TwentyFour Asset Management's Eoin Walsh, discusses why he thinks there is opportunity within European credit despite the rate headwinds and pull back on some of the aggressive rate cutting expectations markets had at the start of the year.
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Politics won’t trump data for the Fed
The last few weeks have seen former President Donald Trump establish a lead over current President Joe Biden across polls in the run-up to November’s US election. Even though it is early days and a lot can change before November (including the Democrat candidate), it is worth considering what a second Trump term might mean for the world economy and for fixed income markets.
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Wages continue to rein in pace of ECB rate cuts
Last month saw the European Central Bank (ECB) get their cutting cycle underway with a 25bp cut in the deposit rate to 3.75%. However, any expectations for a rapid series of reductions after the first move were tempered by President Christine Lagarde, who at the subsequent press conference was clear that the ECB could move in phases in which they left interest rates unchanged.
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This strange economic cycle is finally starting to look familiar
There is little disagreement among investors and economists that the last few years have been highly unusual in many respects. An inflationary shock in developed markets, one of the fastest rate hiking cycles on record, the worst year in decades for government bonds (2022), and mild recessions with no movement in unemployment are just a few of the dynamics that have strayed from recent norms.
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French result supports European spreads but budget concerns remain
After weeks of volatility following President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to call snap parliamentary elections in France, markets were breathing a sigh of cautious relief on Monday after the far-right Rassemblement National (RN) underperformed the polls.
