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Strategic Income - Quarterly update - January 2018
Mark Holman discusses Q4 performance for the Strategic Income strategy and provides his outlook for 2018.
ABS - Quarterly update – January 2018
Ben Hayward looks back at performance for Asset Backed Securities over the last few months and provides an outlook for 2018.
Global Housing Update
As we provide lots of commentary on the maturing economic cycles and monetary policy across the globe, we thought it was worth highlighting some points from Fitch’s recently published Global Housing Update and its useful insights into how the global housing markets are faring.
Be Aware Of Policy Change at the Fed
Our forecasts for longer dated government bonds were for yields to gradually rise during 2018, but not in an uncontrolled manner.
Should We Worry About Consumer Credit?
As the credit cycle develops across different economies, our asset allocation changes to reflect that, and if it looks to be at a mature stage in a specific country then our natural focus on credit quality becomes more important; we are always trying to avoid next year’s problem credits, whether in the financial, corporate or securitised markets.
If rates were to rise like 1994, would IG credit produce a positive return?
1994 was my first full year in the markets, and what a baptism of fire it was.