Income Insights

As we enter November, investors have used newfound clarity surrounding the U.S political landscape after a contentious presidential election, with an apparent winner in Joe Biden, as a reason to forget a mostly miserable October.

As yield becomes increasingly difficult to find in fixed income markets how can an investor take advantage of the growing corporate credit environment, low debt service rates, and a lower exposure to interest rate risk as rates are expected to be volatile in the near future? To answer this question, short duration corporate debt with rules based fundamental metrics and behavioral analysis.

On Aug 28, the Federal Reserve memorialized its revised monetary framework by aiming for “average” inflation of 2% over time. In practical terms, the central bank told investors two things 1) they will keep interest rates low for years, therefore making income difficult to come by and 2) they will continue to press policy that is meant to stoke inflation.

Buoyed by expansionary monetary and fiscal policy, the securities markets saw a return to risk taking in the second quarter of 2020

HANDLS Indexes co-founder Matthew Patterson speaks with Nasdaq's Jill Malandrino, on #TradeTalks to discuss dislocations in the markets caused by a Global Pandemic, and the aggressive actions the Federal Reserve took to forestall a major dislocation in the securities market.

The first quarter was challenging for risk assets in general as investors wrestled with the economic impacts of the COVID-19 driven shutdown. The S&P 500 was down -20% in 1Q for the biggest quarterly decline since 2008.

The first quarter was challenging for risk assets in general as investors wrestled with the economic impacts of the COVID-19 driven shutdown. The S&P 500 was down -20% in 1Q for the biggest quarterly decline since 2008.

With the Federal Reserve (Fed) set to meet next week some investment banks have come out ahead of the meeting predicting at least three rounds of rate cuts by January 2020.