Sector report: The challenges ahead for strategic bond managers

Sector report: The challenges ahead for strategic bond managers

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After a strong start to the year, bond market bleakness appears to have caught up with funds in this sector. Oliver Kettlewell explores what to look out for as the year goes on...

Strategic bond fund managers have had it easy so far this year. All the major components of their tool kits - sovereigns, corporates, inflation-linkers and the increasingly popular emerging market bonds - had all delivered positive returns in the year-to-date period approaching the end of summer.  As such, the vast majority of managers in the IMA Sterling Strategic Bond sector have duly delivered a positive return for their investors, with most funds churning out a mid-single digit return from January through August. Despite a summer of volatility in the bond market, 2014 could be the...

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