Not Just for Yogurt
by Brad Tank, CIO, Fixed Income, Neuberger Berman A strong corporate culture is good for employees, good for customers and good for business. As we get older, we start doing things that old people do...
View ArticleSandy Liang: High Yield Opportunities in a Rising Rate Market
We recently caught up with Sandy Liang, President, Purpose Investments Partners, and high-yield fixed income portfolio manager. Sandy’s exemplary career on both the buy-side and sell-side in equities,...
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Is Foreign Demand for US Corporate Bonds at an Inflection Point?
by Pramila Agrawal, PhD, Relative Return Strategist, Loomis Sayles The US corporate bond market reached a record $8 trillion at the end of 2017. The high followed a wave of new issuance, which averaged...
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Alfred Lee: Do Passive Strategies Still Make Sense for Fixed Income?
Alfred Lee, Portfolio Manager and Investment Strategist, BMO ETFs takes on the notion of whether it makes sense to take an active approach or remain in passive strategies, given the rising rates...
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13 Charts: High Yield Today
by Sloane Ortel and Martin Fridson, CFA, CFA Institute The standard joke about high-yield bonds is that they’re not high yield any longer. People started to tell that joke when the high-yield index...
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Revisiting Corporate Credit amidst Market Volatility
by Edward D. Perks, CFA, Executive Vice President, Franklin Templeton Investments In 2018, rising inflation, higher US interest rates and escalating trade tensions have led to concerns about global...
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Sandy Liang: What is the Credit Market Saying About the Business Cycle?
We recently caught up with Sandy Liang, President, Purpose Investments Partners, and Portfolio Manager of Purpose Investments’ Credit and Fixed Income Funds and ETFs about the conflicting...
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Sandy Liang: Maximizing Return in a Rising Rate Environment
Sandy Liang, portfolio manager, Purpose Investments, talks about the nature of his investment strategy given the rising interest rate environment, and provides shares insight on what he’s investing...
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Reading the Signs: Investment-Grade Bonds Present Warning and Opportunity
by Fixed Income AllianceBernstein US investment-grade corporate bonds look cheaper today than their lower-quality counterparts in the high-yield market. Is this the buying opportunity of a lifetime?...
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Alfred Lee: Do Passive Strategies Still Make Sense for Fixed Income?
Alfred Lee, Portfolio Manager and Investment Strategist, BMO ETFs takes on the notion of whether it makes sense to take an active approach or remain in passive strategies, given the rising rates...
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Moving Up in Credit Quality for Better Durability
by Glenn Voyles, Marc Kremer, Matt Fey, Brian French, and Reema Agarwal, Franklin Templeton Fixed Income Group Some investment-grade bonds are riskier than their ratings imply, while high-yield bonds...
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Niels Jensen: The Art of Defaulting
… the debt-financed overspending of the 1960s had continued into the early 1970s. The Fed had funded this spending with easy-credit policies, but by paying back its debts with depreciated paper money...
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Mark Noble: What to do about fixed income's conundrum?
Mark Noble, Senior Vice President, Horizons ETFs joined us at the Canadian ETF Association Mindpath ETF 2018 Conference for an in-depth two-part chat on the bond market, given that rising rates and...
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Mark Noble: How do we get the fixed income portfolio out of the red?
Our chat with Mark Noble, Senior Vice President, Horizons ETFs continues, as we discuss some of the ideas that investors seeking alternative moves could consider in the current fixed income...
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