Russell Investments Survey: Fixed Income Managers Less Risk-Averse Despite COVID-19 Concerns

Russell Investments’ latest survey of fixed income managers found 50% expect the global economy to revert to pre-pandemic levels by year-end 2021, while 48% don’t expect it to revert before 2022. The 64 bond and currency managers who responded to the firm’s Q4 survey also indicate more appetite for riskier assets. The percentage selecting investment-grade…

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Buy-side lags behind sell-side in adoption of machine learning and artificial intelligence

Buy-side firms are falling behind the sell-side in the bid to scale up adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies, according to an in-depth report from Refinitiv. Source: The TRADE Refinitiv polled 120 asset managers and found 28% had deployed ML and AI in multiple areas, describing it as core to their…

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2017 Trends in the Bond Market

With a year of widespread volatility behind us, uncertainty will likely remain a key theme for 2017 Instability in the financial markets was a major theme for 2016. The second quarter saw record lows in bond yields after the shock of June’s referendum vote in the UK, however, markets have made a recovery in the…

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