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...A record amount of money has flooded into US corporate bond markets this year, as investors rush to lock in the highest yields in years ahead of an anticipated series of interest rate cuts by the Federal...
...Private pension funds constitute half of the UK institutional market and the rise in bond yields since the pandemic is now delivering a double whammy to managers’ revenues....
...The short answer is that higher bond yields have clogged up the PE pipeline. Bain & Co’s latest private equity review gives a longer answer....
...Two of the UK’s largest fund managers have begun using corporate bonds to underpin their leveraged gilts trades, aiming to bolster their portfolios against the sharp moves that shook the UK government bond...
...Sure, a CCC-rated PIK bond looks better than a defaulted bond in your portfolio. But, as S&P puts it when explaining why U.S....
...); and inflation-linked bonds a defence against sustained higher than expected inflation, so long as the bonds offer a positive real yield when purchased and investors are wary of the risk that bond prices...
...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....
...The volte-face was particularly notable in high-yield bonds, which saw year-to-date net outflows of $8bn as of October 27, but then took in $17.1bn in the remainder of 2023....
...Or mutual funds and/or hedgies who might prefer to trade actively across markets?...
...I thought this stat was unbelievable: 72 per cent of high-yield companies refinanced when the fed funds rate was under 1 per cent....
...In contrast, “actively managed dividend funds often avoid the highest-yielding stocks and instead combine yield with dividend growth to build a more robust and balanced portfolio,” Morningstar said, as active...
...Bank of America’s global fund manager survey for February still showed that investors were betting on a steeper yield curve — expecting yields on two-year yields to fall, or rise less than longer-term yields...
...Similarly, the downturn in the US inflation rate and rapid pullback in bond yields handed a lifeline to heavy-hitting macro hedge funds, many of which tripped up in March when Treasuries rocketed in price...
...There are index funds that invest in high-yield stocks or smaller companies, for example; in neither case would such funds have big positions in tech giants like Apple or Nvidia....
...Bond fund managers have also come under pressure, but see some reasons for optimism....
...Could this be the end for the mutual fund? We’re also reading . . ....
...Infrastructure investment has never been a high-returns business; its appeal is regular annual yields....
...For more than a century, the dividend yield of the US stock market was virtually always greater than what you could get from high-grade bonds....
...VanEck’s decision last month to launch an exchange traded fund version of its $570mn constant maturity commodities index mutual fund highlights some of the issues around using such ETFs....
...— High yield ETF influence on underlying bond market jumps— The creeping equitisation of credit trading...
...F/m is seeking regulatory approval to offer mutual fund share classes for its Benchmark Series range of single bond ETFs — which were itself groundbreaking as the first such products in the world when they...
...The level of mutual fund cash is actually not that high, compared to the market capitalisation of the stock market....
...Longer term, assets such as high-yield bonds — which currently yield an average of about 9 per cent — have become an attractive alternative to stocks....
...In “alternatives” funds, which use asset classes beyond traditional stocks and bonds, the 1.9 percentage point gap wiped out all the funds’ underlying returns and then some....
...Roman: You have a stronger bank, and if we know what we are doing, you have higher expected returns for many people who have money in a pension plan, or a mutual fund, or for an insurance company....
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