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High-yield bonds have long functioned as a carry-driven return engine in institutional portfolios, offering enhanced income and access to the corporate credit risk premium. Positioned between traditional fixed income and equities, the asset class has historically delivered attractive total returns through a combination of coupon income and spread compression....

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Quirky Questions – or, A Peoples Business

If asset management were only about numbers, we could all go home and let the calculators get on with it. But calculators are dull...

Outrageous Predictions 2023 from Saxo Bank

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) - We have received the much-anticipated outrageous predictions 2023 from Saxo Bank. In a foreword, Chief Investment Officer Steen Jakobsen and John...

Expected 75 Point Hike in Riksbank Rate

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Sweden’s Riksbank raised the key interest rate by an expected 75 basis points to 2.5 percent, the highest level since 2008....

London-Based Swede Gains 50% Amid Energy Market Turmoil

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Northlander Commodity Advisors LLP’s flagship commodity-focused strategy, run by Swedish chief investment officer Ulf Ek out of London, has advanced 50...

Día de Muertos

(By Mark Dowding, CIO at BlueBay Asset Management) - A prominent hedge fund apparently suffered huge losses and capitulated from being long the front-end...

Stop Making Room for Managed Futures

By Corey Hoffstein, Co-Founder, CEO and CIO at Newfound Research: The case for managed futures as a portfolio diversifier is well established. During the...

Average Aggregate Notional Amount Calculation Window for UMR opens in March

Partner Content (CME Group) - New Year, another new phase for the uncleared margin rules (UMR) schedule, and this time with a materially lower...

NHX Promo

Features as part of the Promo Pack: Logo, Fund Family, Follow Button (soon Trophy Room): Features as part of the Promo Pack: PM team bios...

Initial Margin Landscape – A Long Road Ahead

Partner Content (CME Group) - Neil Murphy, business manager of triResolve, discusses what the regulatory initial margin landscape changes mean to the market and how...

Fed Funds Futures in a Post-ZIRP World

As the FOMC returns to more active management of its key target rate, Federal Funds futures have experienced dramatic growth. Source: CME Group Contract Background The Federal...

Protected: Optimize Equity Swap Post-Trade Processes

Partner Content (CME Group) - Efficiently interact with your counterparties via our exception management tool to identify, track and resolve breaks to achieve equity...

Navigating Uncleared Margin Rules

(CME Group Partner Content) - Since Uncleared Margin Rules (UMR) went live in 2016, only a small number of firms have been impacted by Phases...