May 18, 2023
Solving the Fixed Income Core Conundrum Video
Anne Walsh explains the Guggenheim approach to solving the Core Fixed-Income Conundrum.
In the 2023edition of The Core Conundrum, Guggenheim’s investment team discusses why investors may find better value in fixed-income sectors that are underrepresented in the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (the Agg), such as structured credit, below investment-grade corporate credit, floating-rate bonds, and municipal bonds.
Key Takeaways:
- The Agg remains the preeminent performance benchmark for core fixed-income investors, but it is dominated by low-yielding government securities. Traditional return targets are impossible to achieve while staying close to the Agg.
- At $26.8trillion, the Agg represents less than half of the total U.S. fixed-income universe, leaving out over $28 trillion of non-indexed securities.
- For example, bank loans and short-duration products have performed well in periods of rising rates, and structured credit has provided compelling returns when investment-grade corporate bond spreads were too low to offset the risk side of the equation.
- We believe actively managed portfolios have the best potential to harvest attractive risk adjusted returns.
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Investing involves risk, including the possible loss of principal. Investments in fixed-income instruments are subject to the possibility that interest rates could rise, causing their values to decline. Investors in asset-backed securities, including collateralized loan obligations (“CLOs”), generally receive payments that are part interest and part return of principal. These payments may vary based on the rate loans are repaid. Some asset-backed securities may have structures that make their reaction to interest rates and other factors difficult to predict, making their prices volatile and they are subject to liquidity and valuation risk. CLOs bear similar risks to investing in loans directly, such as credit, interest rate, counterparty, prepayment, liquidity, and valuation risks. Loans are often below investment grade, may be unrated, and typically offer a fixed or floating interest rate. High yield and unrated debt securities are at a greater risk of default than investment grade bonds and may be less liquid, which may increase volatility.
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