Why would you describe this fund as a one to watch and how could the strategy work in investors portfolios?
We believe a core strategic bond investment can serve as the bedrock of an investor s portfolio, offering the potential for steady growth and a source of shelter when markets turn volatile. By investing across the whole of the fixed income spectrum, we have the flexibility to both protect capital and generate returns.
Markets are currently pricing in a high degree of optimism, especially in the US, where a successful vaccine rollout is underway. Yet there remains a great deal of uncertainty about the future, from the possibility of new variants to the impact of winding down crisis support packages. In recent weeks, for example, new restrictions across Europe have pushed out any economic recovery, with the summer tourism season in the Mediterranean clearly threatened.
Event Voice: Your Questions Answered by AXA Investment Managers at the Investment Week Fixed Income Market Briefing
Nick Hayes, Portfolio Manager and Head of Active Total Return and Fixed Income Asset Allocation at AXA IM
Can you give a brief overview of your strategy in terms of what you are trying to achieve for investors, your investment process and the make-up of the investment team?
Our Global Strategic Bond Fund aims to deliver an attractive, risk-adjusted return over the economic cycle. This is a long-only, non-benchmarked strategy, structurally diversified across three risk buckets:
Defensive (e.g. core government bonds, inflation-linked)
Regulating NBFCs: RBI proposes bank-like norms for the top 30
January 22, 2021
Suggests four-layer pyramid structure, with progressive levels of regulation
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) plans to usher in a four-layered regulatory and supervisory framework for non-banking finance NBFCs as it embarks on the path of a scale-based regulation in the backdrop of the recent stress in the sector.
In its discussion paper on “Revised Regulatory Framework for NBFCs a Scale-Based Approach”, RBI said its proposed framework could be visualised as a pyramid, comprising NBFCs grouped in four layers Base Layer (BL), Middle Layer (ML), Upper Layer (UL) and a possible Top Layer (TL).
Quilter offers bonus for moving assets onto ‘matrix’
By Daniela Esnerova 7
th January 2021 7:00 am
Quilter offered an adviser joining the firm a bonus to move client assets onto its approved panel of products, court documents show.
During a dispute between a departing planner and the vertically-integrated wealth manager, evidence was provided that shows that Quilter offered a bonus estimated to amount to £5,000 in a year for moving clients to products on Quilter’s so called matrix – a panel consisting of Quilter in-house products and several third-party alternatives.
This was cross-examined by a High Court judge, and Quilter did not dispute the finding that it offered a “matrix bonus” of 0.065 per cent of moved clients’ assets into its Core Investment Proposition.
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