2 Feb 2023 TwentyFour Blog No, you haven’t missed the fixed income rally Strong performance across markets in January has left some investors feeling they’ve missed out on the rally in bonds. No need to worry, says Felipe Villarroel. Read more
25 Jan 2023 TwentyFour Blog Having your cake and eating it While yields have soared in recent months and created a broad buying opportunity in fixed income, Aza Teeuwen says investors should look at floating rate bonds to benefit from higher coupons today. Read more
19 Jan 2023 Market Update Asset-Backed Securities Quarterly Update – January 2023 TwentyFour Partner and Portfolio Manager, Douglas Charleston, describes the developments of the ABS market in Q4 2022. Watch now
19 Jan 2023 TwentyFour Blog New year, new mood as ABS supply ramps up 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. Read more
9 Jan 2023 TwentyFour Blog Are storm clouds gathering over the UK housing market? Part two… 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. Read more
7 Dec 2022 TwentyFour Blog Nationwide deal highlights surge in ABS interest and income Higher rates mean the income available on AAA RMBS bonds is eight times what it was at the start of this year, and growing demand for this floating rate asset class is clear, says Kevin Law. Read more
6 Dec 2022 TwentyFour Blog The Rodney Blog 2023: A return to returns In our annual ‘Rodney Blog’, Eoin Walsh says that with rates now offering both yield and downside mitigation, and credit yields at near-decade highs, fixed income investors could enjoy strong returns in 2023 Read more
2 Dec 2022 TwentyFour Blog Are storm clouds gathering over the UK housing market? Part one… In the first of a two-part series on the UK housing market, Shilpa Pathak looks at the experience of previous recessions and argues fundamentals today look far stronger than they did either in 2007 or the early 1990s Read more
7 Nov 2022 White Paper Sustainability and ABS – what’s going on? Since we published our October 2019 whitepaper, ‘ESG and ABS at TwentyFour’, the global ESG market has continued to grow dramatically. We have seen a Green ABS market begin to emerge, improvements in sustainable data and an increasing focus on ESG in the leveraged loan and CLO markets. But what does all this mean for investors? Read more
3 Nov 2022 Market Update ABS Investor Update - November 2022 While rising interest rates are generally positive news for European ABS due to the resulting increase in their floating rate coupons, the substantial volatility in UK government bonds recently has seen ABS spreads widen, we believe due in large part to the popularity of the asset class with pension funds as a liquid fixed income allocation alternative. Watch now
27 Oct 2022 TwentyFour Blog Here’s why private equity is buying bonds over ‘real’ assets With private equity firms active buyers of CLOs and CMBS in recent weeks, Aza Teeuwen explains why these investors are shunning physical assets in favour of asset-backed bonds. Read more
14 Oct 2022 Market Update Asset-Backed Securities Quarterly Update – October 2022 TwentyFour Partner and Portfolio Manager, Douglas Charleston, explains how ABS markets have performed in Q3 2022 and provides his outlook for the rest of the year. Watch now