bonds

Despite the recent sell-off, the promise of highly stimulatory monetary policy from the US Federal Reserve is the dominant force driving bond market yields today. The...

High grade sovereign (or government) bonds remain as relevant as ever in an uncertain and complex market environment. Today’s bond yields are indeed low, and some...

After somewhat of a slow start to the year, bond issuance has gathered momentum. While this has been mainly led by governments and financial institutions issuance,...

Cash and shares appear to be the only 2 asset classes I seem to hear about in my travels and discussions with investors of all persuasions. There are actually 5...

Ground hog day continued in markets over July, with many countries experiencing stop, start, stop outcomes on Covid-19 progress. Countries that are targeting...

Presenting recently on the state of the market and its behaviour, I was asked about some of the most risky elements currently at play. I’ve written previously about...

Following on from our assessment a month ago about the likely path of a post COVID-19 recovery, we update the recent macro data and look at bond market options. ...

There’s been a fair bit of commentary recently that because interest rates and yields are so low, government bonds no longer have a role in portfolios. The argument...

In the AFR this weekend I argue that one of the most popular yet flawed homilies in fixed-income investing is that diversification is a universally good thing. Whereas...

Halfway through a year that will get recorded in the history books as epic and ironically it feels like we have come to a fork in the road as governments, central...