TwentyFour

In TwentyFour Asset Management’s annual fixed income outlook, Eoin Walsh says that with rates now offering both yield and downside mitigation, and credit yields at near-decade highs, fixed income investors could enjoy strong returns in 2023.

Fixed income managers always want to have the flexibility to look for the best value across their investment universe, and in our view they therefore need the capacity to buy bonds in different currencies.

Following Chairman Powell’s speech last night, George Curtis looks at what the latest labour market data means for the Fed’s war on inflation.

Bids Wanted in Competition (or BWIC) lists are a unique characteristic of the ABS and CLO markets, where they are widely used in secondary trading when investors are looking to sell bonds.

Inflation is widely understood to be bad for bonds. Fundamentally, this is because inflation erodes the value of the coupon and principal payments that fixed rate bondholders receive in the future.

The goal of income investing is to ensure that your portfolio generates a steady source of revenue regardless of market conditions.

With investors caught between inflation and recession, TwentyFour Asset Management’s Chris Bowie argues current valuations in short term, investment grade bonds can offer portfolios both downside protection and attractive yields.

George Curtis looks at market conditions in the third quarter of 2022.

TwentyFour Portfolio Manager, Johnathan Owen, explains how investment grade markets have performed in Q3 2022.

With some UK bank bonds now trading with higher yields than their counterparts in Turkey, Mark Holman questions whether the dumping of UK and sterling assets has gone too far.

TwentyFour Partner and Portfolio Manager, Douglas Charleston, explains how ABS markets have performed in Q3 2022 and provides his outlook for the rest of the year.

With rates volatility persisting and developed markets likely sliding toward recession, Jack Daley revisits our research on BBB defaults and returns and explains why we tend to maintain a significant allocation to BBB credit.