European bond investors look for safety
European investors pulled 5.3bn out of high yield funds in September, while they propped up their holdings in investment grade corporate bonds and long/short debt.
European investors pulled 5.3bn out of high yield funds in September, while they propped up their holdings in investment grade corporate bonds and long/short debt.
Investors are desperately looking for alternatives to traditional fixed income, but why not resort to dividend-stocks as an alternative to bonds?
Norwegian fund selectors stick to developed market bonds while the rest of the continent seems to have more or less abandoned this asset class.
Despite record-low yields, government bonds are more popular than ever with Norwegian fund selectors.
EIE’s latest Pan-European research data reveal that the asset class European fund selectors’ views are most split on is European equities.
Niels Skovvart, chief investment officer of Sydinvest in Denmark, discusses his asset allocation with EIE’s Dylan Emery.
Net outflows from European equity funds accelerated in August, while developed bonds are showing an upsurge.
Since summer last year, the correlation between high yield and emerging market bonds has reversed.
European investors pulled out a net 5bn from USD corporate high yield funds alone in July.
Emerging markets enthusiasm was sky high in Munich when our researcher visited fund selectors in the Bavarian capital last week.
While high yield bond is rather unloved across Europe, it has a lot of buyers in Geneva. But they don’t increase their exposure because they love to…
While high yield bond is rather unloved across Europe, it has a lot of buyers in Geneva. But they don’t increase their exposure because they love to…