Market updates

At the beginning of this year you would have struggled to find a single investment bank or asset manager (ourselves included) that thought owning 10-year US Treasuries (USTs) was a good idea.

Collateralised Loan Obligations, or CLOs, are bond instruments issued to fund a specific pool of loans, typically senior secured or ‘leveraged’ loans, to companies.

One of the best ways to insulate against rising rates is to take zero interest rate exposure and invest in floating rate securities. European ABS is all floating rate, with no duration, so prices do not move up or down when rates move and with higher rates come higher coupons.

TwentyFour Partner and Portfolio Manager, Graeme Anderson, provides an update on the firm's ESG activities in Q1 2022.

TwentyFour Partner and Portfolio Manager, Eoin Walsh, discusses market conditions in Q1 2022 and provides his outlook for the year ahead.

TwentyFour Portfolio Manager, Elena Rinaldi, explains how European ABS markets behaved in Q1 2022 and provides her outlook for the year ahead.

TwentyFour Partner and Portfolio Manager, Gordon Shannon, describes the developments of the investment grade strategy in Q1 2022.

Inflation’s resurgence has created a huge challenge for fixed income investors so far in 2022.

Global bond markets have moved sharply in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as investors have tried to assess the impact of an unprecedented raft of financial and economic sanctions. Mark Holman looks at the potential implications for inflation and growth, and highlights some areas of fixed income where yields have risen to near-crisis levels.

With inflation soaring and the economic recovery looking more fragile, we look at three famous central bank policy errors to demonstrate why they can be so dangerous for investors, and consider how a fixed income portfolio can be strengthened against the risk.

TwentyFour Partner and Portfolio Manager, Douglas Charleston, explains how ABS markets have performed in Q4 2021 and provides his outlook for the new year.

TwentyFour Portfolio Manager, Charlene Malik, discusses market conditions in Q4 2021 and provides her outlook for the new year.