Fixed Income

In the latest Interactive Financial Adviser debate, our panellists from Aberdeen Asset Management, Rathbone Unit Trust Management and Standard & Poor's discuss Fixed Income.

Yields on the 10-year gilt have fallen to an all-time low below 2.77% as recessionary fears resurface across the globe.

Despite last month's significant price movements in US treasuries, yields are still below the levels seen at the end of last year.

Nick Griffiths, co-head of interest rates and global portfolios at Aberdeen, has been poached by Legal & General Investment Management.

Aberdeen is merging its Global Sterling Corporate Bond fund into its Global World Bond fund due to the small size of the former portfolio.

Aviva Investors' Chris Higham has slashed risk exposure in his £1.6bn Corporate Bond and £96m Strategic Bond funds, shifting 25% of the portfolio into cash on fears of a bubble forming in risk assets.

In the latest Interactive Financial Adviser debate, our panellists from Threadneedle, Western Asset, Standard & Poor's and Ignis discussed absolute returns income.

Listen to our latest Interactive Financial Adviser debate on fixed income and top-up your CPD.

The combination of high valuations for US bonds and large retail inflows suggests a bubble about to burst, says Henderson's Simon Ward.

Christine Johnson, manager of the Old Mutual Dynamic Bond fund, assesses the long-term argument for sticking with fixed income