What does the latest Index Industry Association (IIA) global membership survey reveal about current trends in indexes and benchmarks? Chief among the key data points is that the ...
The Bank of Japan (BOJ) widens the 10-year yield trading range. The BOJ announced its latest yield curve control (YCC) change on 19 December, raising the 10-year yield cap from 25 ...
Read the complete three-part series. The European Central Bank (ECB) began buying corporate debt as part of its corporate sector purchase programme (CSPP) in 2016. Given its ...
How have different portfolio allocations performed throughout the world? Amid recent market turbulence, the worst year ever for US bonds, persistent inflation, and the looming ...
There is an old adage on Wall Street: To succeed as an equity fund manager, follow interest rates and the bond markets. We decided to put that theory to the test: So, how do ...
The financial markets are experiencing a sea change marking the end of a long period of accommodative central bank monetary policy, and there is little hope of ultra-low interest ...
What is the current outlook for investors in today’s credit market? Interest rates had been in secular decline since the 1980s. In the aftermath of the global financial crisis ...
Each cycle in distressed debt investing is different. During the global financial crisis (GFC), many otherwise viable companies faced a liquidity crisis. Prior to that, as the tech ...
“ur mind is strongly biased toward causal explanations and does not deal well with ‘mere statistics.'” — Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow The predictive power of the ...
Markets were generally buoyant in June and July as participants focused on the positives and largely ignored higher risk-free rates and other phenomena with negative implications for ...
Can stock investors benefit from corporate bond market data? Yes. In fact, equity portfolios constructed using bond momentum signals may outperform their traditional equity price ...
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) ratings should reflect the risks that such factors pose to a company’s financial performance and how well equipped that company is to ...
