Flash Fixed Income: Rate cuts won’t help long-dated bonds
With the Fed’s stance suggesting it is prioritising growth over sticky inflation risks, volatility in longer dated bonds is likely to persist and the case for increasing duration in fixed income is not compelling.
An introduction to global CLOs
Collateralised loan obligations, or CLOs, have become an increasingly popular asset class within global fixed income.
Is there value in the troubled European chemicals sector?
As active managers we are naturally looking for bonds that we believe are mispriced, therefore offering attractive risk-adjusted carry or, sometimes, a capital gain if market pricing falls into line with our view. Equally important is to avoid sectors facing structural or protracted cyclical downturns where we don’t think valuations reflect the fundamentals.
Asset-backed finance: How does Europe stack up?
The $5.2tr asset-backed finance (ABF) market represents a growing opportunity to gain exposure to high quality loan pools and the returns they can generate.
Flash Fixed Income: Forget tariffs, watch the US labour market
The Trump administration’s immigration policy leaves the US labour market at a pivotal juncture.
Investment Grade Quarterly Update – July 2025
TwentyFour Asset Management’s Gordon Shannon reflects on a volatile but resilient second quarter of 2025 for the Investment Grade team, shaped by shifting tariff policies and evolving central bank actions.