High Yield Bonds – Page 5
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Features
Pensions insider: Handling mistrust after a huge loss
In the first in a series of articles aimed at empowering trustees, our expert contributor describes how a pension fund solved a real-life case involving poor judgement by a high-yield bond manager
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News
Ilmarinen invests €170m in AXA low-carbon HY bond fund
Finnish pension insurer is seed investor in active ESG fixed income fund, which is ‘one of the first of its kind’
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Asset Class Reports
US high yield: A changing market
US high yield looks attractive against investment-grade credit although there are important changes for key sectors
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Features
Fixed Income, Rates, Currencies: A very different recovery
Amongst the remarkable happenings in 2020, from startling news of a pandemic to viable vaccine and beyond, has been the speed and scale of interventions from central banks and governments.
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Opinion Pieces
Viewpoint: The tipping point for UK pension schemes
Schemes need to consider how to get to a secure level of funding, but also, the assets they will need to hold when they reach peak cashflows in order to remain fully funded
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News
Commission to use rescue plan to create ‘European yield curve’
‘In addition to issuing bonds with a maturity of up to 30 years, there will also be an emphasis on the short end’
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News
AP1 spurs more fossil-free funds as TOBAM adapts EM, HY
Swedish state pension buffer fund says initiative is a milestone
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News
Intesa Sanpaolo issues €1bn in equity, bond mandates
The scheme is seeking managers for US and euro corporate bonds, global high yield corporate bonds, among others
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News
WTW: Passive managers ‘disappoint’ as stewards of fixed income
Stewardship in fixed income is a position of significant influence, says consultancy
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News
Brunel PP seeks managers for £1.5bn MAC, £1.2bn corporate bond funds
The MAC portfolio will invest in high yield corporate bonds, bank loans, asset-backed securities and emerging market debt
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News
Large cap value, global HY mandates put out to tender via IPE Quest
Scandi pension fund and UK-based institutional investor are behind the searches
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Asset Class Reports
Credit: High yield managers embrace uncertainty
Managers are constructive about high yield, loans and alternative credit despite the volatile outlook
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News
Mandate roundup: LGPS Central launches multi-asset credit manager search
Plus: Cometa awards €1.4bn to Generali; German investor tenders hIgh bond yields brief
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News
How Folketrygdfondet calmed markets with pop-up bond fund
‘At the start of the pandemic, a lot of people were searching for answers,’ says Kjetil Houg
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News
Norway’s new NOK50bn Government Bond Fund makes first investments
Manager of SWF’s smaller element posts 11.7% loss for Q2
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News
LD seeks managers for €1.5bn of Danish/European bonds
Pension fund manager tenders for Danish short-term and high-grade bonds
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News
LGPS Central sets up investment grade bond fund
Fidelity International and Neuberger Berman will share a £1.2bn mandate
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Features
Fixed Income & Credit: High-yield worries grow
Global high yield and loans still offer attractive returns but the worry is about the stage we are in the credit cycle
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News
Border to Coast picks core manager for multi-asset credit fund
’Core-satellite’ strategy of up to £3bn being prepared for launch next year
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Asset Class Reports
Fixed Income – European investment grade: No sign of end for negative yields
Negative interest rates look set for a lengthy run in Europe, raising concerns about the long-term effects