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What Should Investors Expect an Active Fixed Income Manager to Deliver?

Yield is only the starting point. Active fixed income seeks to add value through security selection, relative-value investing, and diversified sources of outperformance, or alpha.

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Economic and Market Commentary

Going passive has often paid off in equities, but in bonds it may mean giving up potential returns. New analysis explores why active management has historically been more effective in fixed income.

The Credit Market Lens

As AI-related borrowing grows, securitized credit and emerging markets may offer investors a wider lens on diversification.

Investment Strategies

In this excerpt from our quarterly Income webcast, Group CIO Dan Ivascyn discusses why today’s yields make this a compelling time to lock in income and how a high quality, flexible approach can help investors capture today’s opportunities globally.

Economic and Market Commentary

The 2026 U.S. midterm election resembles previous blue waves, and its legacy may be a new era of oversight, political gridlock, and AI restrictions.

Macro Signposts

Record midterm campaign spending along with tax refunds bolstered U.S. consumption in 2026, but will have little impact in 2027.

Economic and Market Commentary

Higher real yields may pressure property valuations, but healthier financing conditions make a repeat of the 2023 credit shock less likely.

Economic and Market Commentary

Several existing policy capabilities could help ease mortgage costs and improve housing affordability without requiring new legislation.

Economic and Market Commentary

The Federal Reserve held its policy rate steady in October, but the door is clearly open to further hiking.

Macro Signposts

The AI investment boom is reshaping the U.S. economy, with higher policy rates and tighter financial conditions slowing growth in the sectors most sensitive to borrowing costs.

Investment Strategies

Yield is only the starting point. Active fixed income seeks to add value through security selection, relative-value investing, and diversified sources of outperformance, or alpha.

The Credit Market Lens

Higher yields have improved bonds’ income and diversification potential, but the same reset is testing weaker borrowers, leveraged AI financing, and rate-sensitive real estate.

Economic and Market Commentary

AI's infrastructure boom is generating significant funding needs. Hear how Mohit Mittal, CIO Core Strategies, and Sonali Pier, Portfolio Manager, assess opportunities across data centers, chip financing, and energy infrastructure while staying focused on resilient cash flows.

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