Scott Crichton discusses liquidity within fixed income during and after the COVID sell-off

Johnathan Owen discusses opportunities to find value in corporate bonds in the current climate.

European collateralised loan obligations – or CLOs – are bonds issued to fund a specific and diverse pool of corporate loans to firms of different sizes and in different industries all over Europe.

At TwentyFour, ESG - Environmental, Social and Governance - factors, are a critical component in our investment process. This video explains our approach to ESG integration at TwentyFour.

As with many things ESG related, interest in, and issuance of, green bonds is growing rapidly.

There are still plenty of potential bumps in the road (Brexit, the US election, COVID-19 developments and so on) but the positive technical created by dwindling supply has the potential to push spreads tighter in coming months.

We expect September to be relatively busy with new ABS deals, but there’s a very strong technical developing in favour of ABS and CLOs, which should help performance in the coming months.

There are a number of countries in Europe where the banking sector remains very fragmented, and while a lot of work has been done in Spain with the mergers of multiple ‘cajas’ in the last few years, there is still scope for further consolidation.

If floating vs. fixed is no longer the most pressing question, then investors should be more focused on where they get the best credit spread.

The tweak that we will read so much about with respect to the inflation goal is that the new policy can be viewed as a “flexible form of inflation targeting”, meaning that following periods when inflation has been running below 2pc, appropriate monetary policy will likely aim to achieve inflation moderately above 2pc for some time.