Western Asset

Recent economic turmoil has had the positive effect of giving fixed-income back its traditional defensive kick, says Western Asset’s Anthony Kirkham. Investors should be ready to reallocate as needed to take advantage of the renewed diversification benefits.

While analysts see a negotiated deal as the most likely outcome, a compromise is still not guaranteed. The bigger concern, they say, stems from ballooning government debt loads across developed markets in the wake of pandemic spending.

Mark Arnold and Jason Orthman stood at the podium to collect three awards at last Friday (Feb 26) afternoon’s annual Morningstar funds awards, including the main prize, that of Fund Manager of the Year. But they didn’t quite scoop the pool. They were on stage four times but had to make way for T.Rowe Price…

Portfolio managers are urging investors who are considering emerging markets to examine countries individually and understand their health systems and governance risks as to whether they will show resilience. Emerging markets have not been spared from the volatility caused by the COVID-19 outbreak. Alessia Berardi, head of emerging markets macro and strategy research at Amundi…