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Float your way to diversification
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Portfolio Managers John Kerschner, Nick Childs, and Jessica Shill discuss how adding floating-rate CLOs to traditional fixed-rate bond portfolios may improve risk-adjusted returns.
Fixed Income Insights
Global Perspectives: Mortgage-Backed Securities – Has the Baby Gone Out with the Bathwater?
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In the latest episode of our Global Perspectives podcast series, Portfolio Manager Nick Childs and Securitized Products Analyst Tom Polus discuss the reasons why they believe mortgage-backed securities have been sold off disproportionately, and if that might be a good thing going forward.
Fixed Income Insights
Municipal Bonds: 2023 U.S. States Outlook
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Revenue above expectations, pandemic federal aid and reserves have strengthened states' financial outlook. But states will need to prepare as pandemic aid winds down and the economy slows.
Investing Ideas
Breaking Down Plastic Pollution
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Hamish Chamberlayne, Head of Global Sustainable Equities, explains how the responsible use of plastics is an important consideration for evaluating the sustainability of a business.
Fixed Income Insights
CLOs: An Attractive Floating-rate Option in a Rising Rate Environment
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In a rising rate environment, fixed income investors need a floating rate option. CLOs may provide the flexibility investors need to respond and benefit from potential rate hikes.
Fixed Income Insights
Market GPS: Fixed Income Perspectives
Featuring the latest quarterly insights from our investment teams:
- Rising bond yields - a validation of recovery or a challenge?
- Don’t fight the wave of rising rates, surf it.
- Harvesting higher yields in today’s bond markets.
- ESG in credit investing: themes, considerations, and implementation.