Government Bonds – Page 13
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Asset Class Reports
US Treasuries: Safety in volume
US Treasuries, the ultimate safe financial instrument, are continuing to match investor demand even without the incentive of further rate hikes from the Federal Reserve
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Asset Class Reports
Liquidity: The drought continues
Liquidity in the government bond markets has dried up since the global financial crisis of 2008-09. Do these parched markets characterise the new economic norm?
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Asset Class Reports
Brexit – are Gilts a haven?
Joseph Mariathasan asks how the potential UK exit from the European Union would affect the sovereign debt markets
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Asset Class Reports
Investing In Government Bonds: Low yields, high interest
The euro-zone sovereign debt market is distorted by negative yields and quantative easing. Joseph Mariathasan assesses solutions to the situation
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Asset Class Reports
Sensitivity of global inflation bond funds to macro factors
The data shows the sensitivity of global inflation-linked bond funds to changes in macroeconomic factors: global default spreads, global term spreads, global dividend yields and global interest rates.
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Special Report
An agile response to divergent policy
Divergent monetary policy activities by major central banks are having impacts right across yield curves. For investors, this means an agile investment strategy will be vital to the overall performance of their bond portfolio.
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NewsUK pension fund hedging activity 'significant' in Q4 – LDI survey
BMO Global AM survey shows interest rate hedging at second highest since 2009
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News
Norway allows Government Pension Fund Global to buy Iranian bonds
January nuclear agreement paves way for government to lift restriction
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News
North Rhine-Westphalia to launch €10bn civil servant pension fund
Asset allocation, external manager yet to be decided
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News
Emerging markets wipe out returns at Switzerland's Publica
Pension fund cites negative impact of emerging market exposure
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News
European pension fund tenders $600m government bond mandate
Passive/semi-passive investment process sought
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Special Report
Bond bonanza beckons
China’s continuing reforms to open up its fast-growing bond market to foreign investors could make it the largest market yet for global investors, writes Tsering Namgyal
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Features
Asset Allocation: The big picture
Another summer passes with huge market moves and chaotic trading days. China’s stock markets ‘wobbles’ are still ongoing, and while emerging markets – especially in Asia – are still being sorely buffeted, more developed markets have attained some degree of calm.
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News
PGGM backs EMIR but calls for stressed market liquidity assistance
Dutch pension fund manager wants larger repo market if solution to using non-cash assets is not found
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News
Aviation Authority pension fund secures £1.6bn buy-in
Rothesay begins to dominate 2015 market as scheme insures pensioner members
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Features
Asset Allocation: The big picture
This year looks like it could be remembered as the Bund sell-off year, or perhaps even the Bund Blowback, with one of the intraday price falls larger than any recorded (by Bloomberg) in the past quarter century
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News
Concern over pension-fund shadow banks 'exaggerated', PIMCO says
Institutional investors have little in common with unregulated banks, asset manager says
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News
Switzerland's AHV drops soft commodities due to 'political sensitivity'
First-pillar fund’s future commodity investments to include energy, precious metals only
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Asset Class Reports
Grexit and euro-zone ratings
Greece’s exit from the EU could cause other countries to follow, and ultimately lead to the destruction of monetary union
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Asset Class ReportsEuro-zone sovereign bonds: A parallel world
Regulation continues to push European pension funds to invest in euro-zone government debt at increasingly unattractive yields
