fixed income

Investors favour credit

Towers Watson’s negative outlook for bonds and its advice to increase allocations to high quality credit is being reflected in portfolio shifts by institutional investors.

SAM RILEYMarch 2, 2012

CalPERS to move $1bn fixed income in-house

CalPERS plans to move $1 billion of its externally-managed international fixed income portfolio in-house in the next 12 months, but it will require board approval to do so.

Amanda WhiteNovember 16, 2011

Conventional indexes still popular

A new EDHEC-Risk Institute survey of 104 European institutional investment professionals analyses the current uses and views on equity and fixed-income indexes.

STAFF WRITERNovember 2, 2011

Pimco’s predictions take a pessimistic turn

Pimco has warned that its outlook for the global economy has declined sharply in recent months, predicting the world will enter a two-to-five-year period of instability as governments seek to address economic imbalances.

SAM RILEYOctober 26, 2011

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Harvard favours emerging markets and absolute returns over fixed income

Harvard Management Company (HMC), which manages the $32 billion Harvard endowment, has made significant alterations to its policy portfolio, including increasing allocations to emerging market equities and the externally-managed absolute returns program, while slashing fixed income allocations.

Amanda WhiteSeptember 28, 2011

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Investors need to look beyond current crisis and plan for future inflation risk

Investors should be looking past a “safe haven mentality” and be structuring their portfolios to deal with the possibility of a looming risk of inflation in the longer term, says Ed Britton, Towers Watson’s global head of fixed income manager research.

SAM RILEYSeptember 21, 2011

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Investors favour credit

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CalPERS to move $1bn fixed income in-house

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Conventional indexes still popular

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Pimco’s predictions take a pessimistic turn

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Harvard favours emerging markets and absolute returns over fixed income

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Investors need to look beyond current crisis and plan for future inflation risk

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