Over the past five years, bond markets have witnessed remarkable transformations, reshaping the investment landscape. From a pandemic to growing global macro-economic pressures, the role of fixed income in portfolio construction remains important.
Towards the start of each calendar year banks and investment managers like to publish their predictions for the year-ahead.
Within Fixed income, there are two well-known levers, duration and credit. In addition, there is also a lesser known third lever, Pure Relative Value investing. This third lever provides compelling diversification benefits when blended with duration and credit.
In this episode of ESG in 10, Charlotte O’Meara is joined by Gillian Jago, Senior Trader at Ardea Investment Management, to explore the dominance of Europe in sovereign green bond issuance amid a global slowdown.
Europe continues to dominate in the green bond space in 2023, with most green bonds issued either by a European name or denominated in EUR.
Governments that perform poorly in managing climate change transition may encounter difficulty finding investors to buy their sovereign debt, that is the finding of a research paper led by Dr Laura Ryan.
After many years of limited activity on green bonds in Australia, we have seen a number of developments in this space recently, with the announcement of the Australian Government issuing a green bond.
Those identifying as female employed in financial services are substantially less likely to be offered an unsolicited promotion than those identifying as male.
Fidante sat down with Head of Research at Ardea Investment Management, Dr Laura Ryan and Portfolio Manager, Tamar Hamlyn to discuss the role of government bonds in an equity heavy portfolio.
March was eventful in markets. The collapse of SVB, forced merger between Credit Suisse and UBS and pressure on other banks was a major shock for investors.
