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What Is Credit And Why Is It Important?

Dean Italia

All sorts of companies and people extend credit. Fixed income credit is essentially the activity of lending to groups other than governments, which generally...

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Credit, Asset Backed Securities and Catastrophe Bonds

Elizabeth Moran

Recently I interviewed Christophe Fritsch, Head of Fund Management and Structured Finance at AXA IM Alts. It was great to get a European view...

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Interest Rate Risk and Duration

Staff Writer

Interest rate duration is a key fixed income concept, as it measures the sensitivity of a bond’s price to changes in interest rates (or...

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Selective Strength in a Policy-Driven Market

Contributing Author

By Michael Goosay, Chief Investment Officer, Fixed Income at Principal Asset Management. From Principal Asset Management’s second quarter 2025, Fixed income perspectives. Markets are being...

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Red Hot US Inflation

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ClearBridge Investments' Head of Economic and Market Strategy, Jeff Schulze has provided comments following the release of US data overnight: "The 'wait and see' Fed...

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Life Above Zero – Investing In a Rising Rate Environment

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Amundi’s Global Investment Committee recently published an excellent paper on investing in second half 2022. Here we republish its Top Convictions, as well as...

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Rebates Slow Inflation But Don’t Expect Rate Cuts

Jonathan Kearns

CPI inflation was just 0.2% in the September quarter, bringing the annual rate down to 2.8%. But don’t expect the RBA to celebrate inflation...

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Global Shares versus Bonds – Which Market Is Bigger?

Staff Writer

SIFMA is a US securities industry member association and they do a lot of work advocating for effective and resilient capital markets. Its recent...

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The Bond Market Stabilises or the World Ends

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Andrew Canobi, a Director within the Franklin Templeton Fixed Income team in Melbourne, Australia, discusses what is causing the current selloff in US and...