Corporate Bonds

This week we present our Portfolio Allocation Summary for January 2023.

We explore the eight major themes that will define economic and market trends for Europe next year.

In this report, we discuss our most important investment themes for global fixed income markets in 2023, and present our main investment recommendations based on those themes. Our broad conclusion: an environment of slowing global inflation, much weaker global growth and less hawkish central banks will be positive for global government bond returns, but problematic for growth-focused spread products like corporate bonds.

In this <i>Strategy Outlook</i>, we present the major investment themes and views we see playing out next year and beyond.

This week we present our Portfolio Allocation Summary for December 2022.

European inflation will decline through 2023, which will greatly help households and consumption. But can European inflation remain low after that?

This week we present six key investment views for 2023.

The messages from the deteriorating fundamental backdrop (tight monetary policy, slowing global growth) and improved credit valuation (elevated 12-month breakeven spreads) are giving conflicting signals on corporate bond strategy. We are putting more weight on the fundamentals and are staying with an overall underweight stance on global investment grade corporates, with a slight bias towards Europe given more attractive spread valuations. At the same time, we see selective opportunities in sectors where risk-adjusted spreads are wide as signaled by our individual country sector valuation models, like US Energy and euro area Financials.

This week we present our Portfolio Allocation Summary for November 2022.

This week’s report takes a look at risk-adjusted return opportunities in US spread product.