Fixed Income
Identifying Value in the Crossover Corporate Bonds Space
Focusing on the area between investment grade and high yield corporate bonds can be advantageous, explains Loomis Sayles’ Fixed Income Manager Matt Eagan.
Views from the Collective: Where Next for Sustainable Investing?
For sustainable investors, navigating the regulatory and political landscape has become a real challenge in recent years. What does the future hold?
Markets and Motivations for Green Bonds
In 2022, green bond volumes fell year-on-year for the first time in a decade. Mirova’s Bertrand Rocher and Agathe Foussard explain why 2023 looks brighter.
How to Invest in Biodiversity
While COP15 paved the way for new regulations, achieving zero biodiversity loss by 2030 requires a concerted effort among investors and consumers alike.
3 minutes with… Bertrand Rocher, Mirova
Find out how Mirova’s Bertrand Rocher began his journey in sustainable investing and what keeps him motivated as a portfolio manager.
Views from the Collective: Bumps on Fixed Income’s Road Back
Fixed income has re-emerged as an asset class of choice in 2023, yet the market environment remains complex.
Higher for How Much Longer?
Portfolio strategists offer their take on the changing macro narrative in the first quarter, the banking crisis, and prospects for a soft or hard landing.
Implications of Credit Suisse Takeover by UBS for Bond Investors
Why UBS took over Credit Suisse, what AT1 bonds are, and how bond investors globally may be impacted are explained by Loomis Sayles Credit Research.
Viewpoints: A new dawn for bonds? Fixed income opportunities in 2023
Our experts from Loomis Sayles, Ostrum and Natixis Investment Managers Solutions discuss why some of the opportunities in the fixed income space are the most exciting they’ve been for more than 15 years.
How Green are Green Bonds?
Not all green bonds are created equal. Thankfully, some managers will only invest in an issuer if the impacts are sufficiently clear and achievable.
Why Everyone's Talking About… Bonds
The fixed income market was even less attractive than equities in 2022. So why are investors hearing that ‘bonds are back’ for 2023?
Yield Opportunities Now in Fixed Income Markets
With bond yields higher than they’ve been in years, Fixed Income Manager Matt Eagan discusses the opportunities he is pursuing in the fixed income markets.
What’s Driving Bond Markets Today?
Loomis Sayles’ Core Plus Bond Co-Manager delves into interest rate levels, global growth prospects and where yield opportunities may be in bond markets.
Corporate Health Weakens as Pricing Power Falls Sharply
Loomis Sayles’ Senior Macro Strategies Research Analsyt, Craig Burelle, takes a look at the corporate sector and the implications of a lowering in pricing power.
Fixed Income Portfolios: Time to Build a Yield Advantage
After a lengthy hiatus, yield is back, says Loomis Sayles Fixed Income Manager Brian Kennedy. He shares market dynamics and late cycle ideas for fixed income portfolios.
Emerging Markets Debt: China Takes Center Stage
The Loomis Sayles Emerging Markets Debt Sector Team shares their views on growth, corporate defaults and inflation.
Investment Solutions under an Uncertain Market
What will happen in 2023? Participants at the Natixis Investment Managers seminar heard a variety of solutions to help guide their investment strategies forward in 2023.
Global Credit Outlook: Cautious on Turbulence & Technicals
The Loomis Sayles Global Credit Sector Team discusses rate volatility, possibly deteriorating credit fundamentals and key technicals at play in the market.
Expect Positive Trends for Corporate Bonds in 2023
Portfolio strategist Garrett Melson discusses improving valuations in fixed income, particularly investment grade corporate bond.
Why Invest in Green Bonds?
For investors looking to have a positive environmental impact, green bonds are among some of the most transparent fixed income investments available
Is the Bond Market on the Mend?
Why the bond market is becoming increasingly attractive is explained by Rick Raczkowski, Co-Manager of Loomis Sayles’ Core Plus Bond strategy.
What Factors Will Drive Fixed Income Markets in 2023?
Three fixed income market experts share diverse views on Fed rate hikes, inflation, high yield’s liquidity issue, and value opportunities in 2023.
Investing in Volatile Times
Allocations are under review amid sustained inflation and a recessionary environment.
A Low Volatility Approach to Emerging Markets
Actively-managed, short-dated corporate bonds are a good fit for cautious EM investors.
Readying for Recession: High Yield Credit vs. Bank Loans Today
High yield is in relatively good shape if recession hits while bank loans are more challenged. Matt Eagan of Loomis Sayles’ Full Discretion Team explains.
Are We There Yet? Pulse Check: Macro, Markets & Inflation
Portfolio strategists discuss topics including the path of inflation, supply chain dynamics, dollar strength and the markets’ reactions.
Fixed Income Absolute Return: An Answer to the Paradigm Shift?
How is DNCA's Alpha Bonds strategy a response to the current economic environment? François Collet, Fixed Income Portfolio Manager at DNCA Finance, share his analysis.
Bank Loan Basics: An Income Diversifier for All Times
An introduction to bank loans and their benefits: seniority, security, floating interest rates, and diversification for the short or long term.
2019 Natixis Global Survey of Individual Investors
The 2019 Natixis Global Survey of Individual Investors reveals that investors are conflicted about risk, returns and what they can expect from their investments.