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Navigating fixed income: where are the new opportunities?

  • Explain why bonds markets have struggled this year
  • Identify challenges for fixed income investors
  • Identify opportunities for fixed income investors
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Navigating fixed income
How challenges in the bond market are presenting investors with new opportunities
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It is looking likely that the UK will meet its inflation target of 2 per cent or possibly even below in the coming months, but the more important question is when it will meet its inflation target in a sustained way. 

Meanwhile, the delayed anticipated rate cuts are having a raft of effects on the fixed income market.

So where are the opportunities for investors?

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Please answer the six multiple choice questions below in order to bank your CPD. Multiple attempts are available until all questions are correctly answered.

  1. Why, according to Richard Carter, have bond markets struggled this year?

  2. According to Stuart Chilvers, what impact has the massive repricing in expected interest rate cuts had on government yields?

  3. Why does Carter say that yields at the shorter end of markets are particularly attractive?

  4. Which of the following is NOT one of the challenges in the fixed income market that is mentioned by James Sullivan?

  5. According to Alex Ralph, what role can bonds play in a portfolio?

  6. According to Carter, more cautious investors can earn a solid return by investing in what type of bonds?

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  • Identify challenges for fixed income investors
  • Identify opportunities for fixed income investors

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