4/11/2019 Fixed Income & FX High Yield: deep diving needed due to a more uncertain outlo... Global growth has been slowing since 2018, due to a combination of factors, including trade wars - with consequently slower global trade - past US Fed...
2/08/2019 Fixed Income & FX Seek high yield opportunities, but be aware of liquidity con... Speculative grade bonds have been among the major beneficiaries of the rapid turn of both Fed and ECB monetary policy stances to much more dovish positions....
25/07/2019 Fixed Income & FX Fixed Income Charts and Views - Q3 2019 A slowdown in global growth, with subdued inflation and dovish central banks (CB) committed to avoiding further economic deceleration, is a trend that,...
23/05/2019 Fixed Income & FX High Yield: Oasis in search for yield? Since early 2016, US HY default rates have experienced a sort of “mini –cycle”, peaking at the end of 2016.
25/02/2019 Fixed Income & FX How investors should deal with the liquidity dilemma The paradox of liquidity (it dries up when most needed) remains one of the key challenges for investors on the aftermath of the great financial crisis...
14/11/2018 Economy & Markets What lies ahead for the US economy and markets? The robust performance of the US economy in 2018 has led to the supremacy of US risk assets compared to the rest of the world.
9/05/2018 Fixed Income & FX Rethinking fixed income investing when the easy money is com... Core fixed income allocation, usually comprising high-quality government and corporate bonds, has played a relevant role in diversified portfolios over...
12/12/2017 Fixed Income & FX Credit Continuum: How to make it happen We have been living for the past few years under an unprecedented regime of unconventional monetary policies. Abundant liquidity poured into developed...
1/06/2017 Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence Parameter Learning, Sequential Model Selection, and Bond Ret... Parameter Learning, Sequential Model Selection, and Bond Return Predictability
6/06/2016 Portfolio Allocation Designing a corporate bond index on solvency criteria Doubts are rising whether bond indices, in the way they are constructed, are effective in their role of representing the markets they are designed for.
3/11/2014 Portfolio Allocation The art of tracking corporate bond portfolios The corporate bond indices, built by market index providers to serve as investment benchmarks, contain a great many securities, and are for that reason...
15/04/2013 Asset Pricing & Behavioural Finance Fundamental indexation for bond markets The standard indices available for the bond investment markets, are composed of securities that are weighed by the size of the outstanding debt, and are...