Elevating fixed income  

How to assess the challenges and opportunities in the global bond market

  • To be able to summarise the reasons for fixed income's popularity
  • To be able to explain the nature of the challenges in the market
  • To be able to list areas of opportunity within portfolio construction
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Global fixed income: opportunities and challenges in 2024
The outlook for bonds within portfolios
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Amid a spree of bond buying and issuance, what are investors really wanting to know about the future of the fixed income market?

With managers trying to predict and price in the beginning of a rate cut cycle - and a few outliers discussing the possibility of stickier-than-expected inflation and no downward rate moves - what is the outlook for global fixed income in 2024?

What are the opportunities, and what are the challenges - and how should your clients' portfolios be positioned to mitigate risks and maximise upside potential?

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This guide will explore the outlook for the global fixed income market, and comes with an indicative 30 minutes of CPD.

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  1. What are you being paid less for the probability of, according to Hal Cook?

  2. How does Milburn describe future rate cuts?

  3. What are emerging as an attractive alternative for investors seeking to dial down risk in portfolios, according to Hopkins?

  4. What might prove the most difficult to deliver, according to Khalaf?

  5. What is already priced in by financial markets?

  6. What feature of fixed income investment does Hopkins say could prove useful within a portfolio?

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  • To be able to summarise the reasons for fixed income's popularity
  • To be able to explain the nature of the challenges in the market
  • To be able to list areas of opportunity within portfolio construction

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