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April 20, 2024

InterviewUS Treasury bonds

Donald Trump win risks replay of UK gilt crisis for Treasuries, Amundi says

...of Liz Truss, Europe’s largest fund manager has warned....

February 8, 2024

FT Live

Future of Asset Management North America

New models for the next age of fund management

The Big Read

The radical changes coming to the world’s biggest bond market

...This means that if a bank lends cash to a hedge fund in exchange for temporary ownership of a Treasury bond, and the value of the bond decreases just as the hedge fund defaults on the trade, the bank loses...

March 4, 2024

Turkish economy

Turkey’s sovereign wealth fund draws strong demand at debut bond sale

...The Turkey Wealth Fund notched up $7bn in orders for its $500mn US dollar-denominated bond deal on Wednesday, according to a term sheet seen by the Financial Times....

February 7, 2024

Capital markets

El Salvador’s ‘absurd’ bond deal

...Monetary Fund....

April 22, 2024

Corporate bonds

Investors pour money into US corporate bond funds at record rate

...A volatile market backdrop over the past two years encouraged investors to keep money on the sidelines or even pull out of bond funds, helping drive up borrowing costs and limiting companies’ access to fresh...

March 22, 2024

FT Live

Bank of the Year Awards 2024

Recognising the best in banking globally

Private equity

Sports investor Arctos to focus on N America after raising $4.1bn fund

...“Finding those outside of North America is difficult.”...

April 20, 2024

The Long ViewKatie Martin

US data blurs the picture for bond investors

...Let us never speak of it again. The big winners here are the macro hedge funds that have placed their bets on few if any rate cuts from the Fed this year and a related sweep higher in bond yields....

April 26, 2024

Sovereign bonds

The looming New York sovereign debt bills debacle

...A hedge fund owning a New York law bond, for example, would not be able to obtain a court judgment exceeding the value the U.S. had accepted in exchange for its defaulted loans in a Paris Club negotiation...

April 22, 2024

Thames Water

Hedge fund Elliott Management scoops up Thames Water bonds

...US hedge fund Elliott Management has been buying the bonds of troubled British utility company Thames Water, in a bet that markets have grown too pessimistic over the size of losses that investors may have...

April 22, 2024

Scoreboard

The $50,000 test of the Olympic model Premium

...As federations and the IOC reflect on World Athletics’ decision, they might consider that the matter of the next IOC president is a key unknown in the equation. League matches in America?...

April 13, 2024

US Treasury bonds

Who’ll buy the Treasuries? (Alphaville’s version)

...fund....

April 2, 2024

Corporate bonds

Pension fund demand drives resurgence of UK corporate bond market

...New regulations to limit excessive leverage by pension funds in the wake of the autumn 2022 gilts crisis have also spurred demand for corporate bonds....

February 19, 2024

ReviewNon-Fiction

3 Shades of Blue — the jazz geniuses of mid-century America

...It is, in his view, the pinnacle of what jazz in America achieved in 1959....

March 28, 2024

High yield bonds

Investors pile in to European junk bonds as inflation cools

...A record $1.2bn has flowed in to European-listed exchange traded funds investing in the region’s high-yield bonds this year to Thursday, according to BlackRock data....

February 24, 2024

FT Live

Infrastructure Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean

Identifying opportunities for investors and asset managers

Exchange traded funds

Synthetic convertible ETF aims at Magnificent Seven bond problem

...The world’s largest convertible bond manager has unveiled a “synthetic convertibles” exchange traded fund to spread the concept to companies that are so cash-rich they do not need to issue real bonds....

February 26, 2024

Skin in the GameStuart Kirk

I’ve never had performance anxiety before now

...Of course the likes of equities and bonds go up over time. And as big liquid asset classes they do make for easy benchmarks. But then the question becomes: how much of each?...

March 22, 2024

Sovereign bonds

Bonds are back

...Update: Bank of America’s note on Allianz’s earnings has landed in FTAV’s inbox, and they make the same point as us, and predict Pimco will see inflows of €155bn over the next year as “fixed income is set...

February 26, 2024

Gideon Rachman

Ukraine is the front line of a much larger conflict

...Together they offer a clear sense of how America — and its key allies in Europe and Asia — now see the world....

April 21, 2024

Sovereign bonds

The passive attack on bond markets

...And yet: Passive bond funds have seen cumulative inflows of nearly $2.8tn since the beginning of 2007....

February 8, 2024

ETF HubLatest news on ETFs

European fund group warns of ‘systemic’ risk from US settlement reform

...“This is of systemic importance.” Asset managers are slowly waking up to the full implications of a move by the US and Canada to shorten settlement times for stocks, bonds and exchange traded funds....

March 14, 2024

Adventurous InvestorDavid Stevenson

Options ETFs give investors a handy hedge

...There are dozens of these funds in the US but at the moment only one in the UK, again from Global X, called the S&P 500 Annual Buffer UCITS ETF (ticker SPAB)....

March 9, 2024

FT Alphaville

FTAV’s further reading

...Elsewhere on Thursday… — How to talk to a person like ChatGPT (Ars Technica) — Index fund investments in banks (Bank Reg Blog) — How European soccer made peace with fasting during Ramadan (New York Times...

April 4, 2024

The Big Read

The mutual fund at 100: is it becoming obsolete?

...“There’s a huge, huge population in America that loves the mutual fund for its simplicity,” says Carol Geremia, president of MFS, Leffler’s old company....

March 21, 2024

Special ReportFTfm: Exchange Traded Funds

Meet the fastest growing ETF firms in the US

...Mutual fund company Capital Group has amassed about $21bn in ETF assets since 2022 with a different approach: focusing fund launches on categories such as core bonds, income and dividend yield....

March 25, 2024

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