From our perspective, the potential wage pressures we see make us uncomfortable with 10-year Treasury yields at current levels, despite their significant rise since the start of the year.

Having witnessed the most remarkable turnaround in risk markets over the last 14 months, it makes sense to take stock as fundamentals look to us to be approaching optimal levels. Credit spreads have ground into levels not far from the prior cycle’s tights, and while we remain confident in the underlying fundamentals and a good technical backdrop, recent developments mean that despite this constructive view, our risk appetite has ticked down slightly.
 

The inexorable growth of sustainable investing during the last decade is likely to continue without interruption given the experience of COVID-19 has only intensified investor and regulatory focus on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues globally.

TwentyFour Asset Management launched its first sustainable fund in January 2020 and I would like to share some of the lessons we have learned from our first year of sustainable bond investing.

TwentyFour partners Gordon Shannon, Doug Charleston and Felipe Villarroel sat down to debate the potential impact of inflation on the fixed income universe, from government bonds and investment grade credit through to ABS and high yield.

At 8.1m, the number of job openings as of March 31 was the highest it has been since the data series began some 20 years ago.

TwentyFour Asset Management partner and portfolio manager, Chris Bowie, looks at the specific challenges faced by investors wanting to invest sustainably in the bond markets and considers two controversial examples in Tesla and Coca-Cola.

In TwentyFour's Multi-Sector Bond update on Thursday 13th May 2021, Partner & Portfolio Manager Eoin Walsh provided an update on investment themes and positioning in the fixed income market.

Additional Tier 1 bonds, or AT1s for short, are part of a family of bank capital securities known as Contingent Convertibles or ‘Cocos’. They are bonds issued by banks that contribute to the total level of capital they are required to hold by regulators.

In TwentyFour's Investment Grade update on Wednesday 12th May 2021, Partner and Portfolio Manager Chris Bowie provided an update on investment themes and positioning in the Investment Grade market.