Troubled times ahead?
The saying that all good things must come to an end is a bittersweet reflection of reality. Sadly, too many of us fail to appreciate those good times, often focusing on what could or might go wrong.
The Case For Relative Value Remains Strong
It has been a challenging year for investors. Safe-haven assets, particularly longer dated government bonds, have suffered spectacular losses and while equity markets on average…
Liquidity lessons from March
Liquidity often gets little attention until something goes wrong … and in March 2020 things certainly went wrong.
How to reduce the risk of a portfolio
In this Livewire video, Dr Laura Ryan discusses a strategy that can produce returns regardless of whether interest rates are rising or falling.
There’s more to fixed income than just buying bonds
This article outlines why a relative value approach is a compelling alternative to traditional fixed income investing.
Market inefficiency is a growing opportunity in fixed income
Fixed income market inefficiency creates a vast and diverse range of mispricing opportunities that ‘relative value’ specialists can exploit.
Mrs. Watanabe meets European insurance companies
Since the early 2000’s the name ‘Mrs. Watanabe’ has been used to describe yield seeking Japanese retail investors, who were forced to increase their offshore investment risk taking in response to ultra-low interest rates back home.
5 Key Risks Impacting Fixed Income for FY20
In this article, we will discuss five key risks to fixed income markets for FY20 and explain their relevance to those allocating to fixed income investments.
Stellar bond returns … what’s driving them?
2019 has so far been a stellar year for bond returns globally. Even a simple passive exposure to long dated bonds has delivered handsome profits that far exceed the average yield of those bonds.
Negative interest rates … the abnormal becomes ‘normal’
Hedonic adaptation is a psychology term that describes the human tendency of reverting to a relatively stable or ‘normal’ state following either positive or negative life changes.