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Fixed Income Insights
Attractive Yields, Slowing Bank Loan Downgrades Support CLOs
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Lower CLO issuance and slowing loan downgrades, along with some attractive yields, have produced value in certain CLOs.
Fixed Income Insights
Improving Credit Quality Boosts High Yield Bonds
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The high yield bond sector represents attractive value because of its improving credit quality and inexpensive valuations.
Fixed Income Insights
LIBOR Is Changing: Five Important Updates
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T. Rowe Price's working group provides an update to the plans to replace LIBOR with new alternative reference rates.
Fixed Income Insights
Currency Hedging Can Boost Yields and Reduce Volatility
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U.S.-based bond investors who hedge the currencies of foreign bonds can obtain higher yields and mitigate portfolio volatility.
Active/Passive Management
Advisor Perspectives: The Dawn of a New Active-Equity Era
Is the market environment turning favorable for active equity managers? It seems a strange question to ask in the midst of a pandemic and heightened market volatility, but history tells us that it is during just such turbulent times that active managers excel. There is accumulating evidence that market conditions are growing more attractive for showcasing stock-picking skills.
Fixed Income Insights
A Multi‑Sector Approach to Short‑Term Bonds
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The low duration management team uses a multi-sector approach as we try to capture a suitable amount of risk-adjusted yield.
Fixed Income Insights
Global Policy Rates Stuck in Lockdown
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What does the new fixed income environment look like as the global economy slowly starts to rebuild?
Fixed Income Insights
Yield Curve Steepening Likely to Continue
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We expect economic data to improve going into the summer, so we anticipate continued Treasury yield curve steepening.
Fixed Income Insights
Pandemic Pressures Municipal Bond Issuers
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While we expect muni downgrades, the market is likely to remain high quality, with low defaults relative to other bond types.