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With commercial real estate seen to be in the eye of the storm as interest rates rise, Aza Teeuwen looks at the potential impact on CMBS and CRE loans and highlights where valuations could be most at risk.

TwentyFour AM portfolio manager Jack Daley discusses Q4 performance for Investment Grade markets and provides his outlook for 2023.

TwentyFour Partner and Portfolio Manager, Douglas Charleston, describes the developments of the ABS market in Q4 2022.

A member of our Multi-Sector Bond team discusses recent market developments in Q4 2022 and provides his outlook for the year ahead.

European ABS is enjoying a spurt of new issuance and a parallel rally in spreads, with investors having entered the new year with cash to invest and buoyed by renewed hope around inflation and monetary policy, says Pauline Quirin.

With projections for European growth and inflation being hastily revised in early 2023, the region’s bonds are still paying investors a premium that may not be around for long, says Dillon Lancaster.

While European ABS was not immune to negative returns amid the considerable fixed income headwinds of 2022, it gave investors largely what they look to this allocation for – lower volatility and better performance than mainstream bonds.

With many market participants fearing the impact of quantitative tightening (QT), Johnathan Owen looks at one central bank’s early experience of actively selling bonds to investors.

After shocking investors in November by floating the idea of deferring its hybrid coupons, AroundTown has begun 2023 in similar fashion with a senior bond tender, says Pierre Beniguel.

Recent employment data suggests the US economy may escape with a soft landing, a welcome boost to market sentiment in the early days of 2023, says Eoin Walsh.

In the second instalment of a two-part blog on the UK housing market, Shilpa Pathak stress tests UK RMBS to determine how high mortgage defaults would have to get before bondholders are impacted.

With the reopening of primary bond markets in Europe being met with strong demand, the AT1 market is seeing an overdue shift away from pricing to perpetuity, says Eoin Walsh