fixed income

In the latest Big Debate, our panelists from Legg Mason Global Asset Management, S&P Capital IQ and TwentyFour Asset Management discussed Fixed Income.

Fixed income continues to be the asset class of choice for UK retail investors, accounting for more than half of July's net retail sales, the latest figures from the Investment Management Association (IMA) show.

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Standard Life Investments (SLI), has been appointment by Danish financial services company Nykredit to manage an €80m and growing segregated European corporate bond portfolio.

Despite talk of a 'bond bubble' investors continued to plough money into bonds during the first quarter of 2012, according to the latest European asset flow research from Morningstar.

Spanish and Italian bond prices have continued their decline as G20 leaders told European politicians responsibility for the debt crisis lies with them.

Global fixed income fund managers are switching to high-quality emerging markets (EM) sovereign debt in search of better value, reports Standard & Poor's (S&P) Capital IQ's latest sector trends research

Cherry Reynard takes a look at where the hot investor money went last month.