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ESTEBAN BURBANO: We do, we get questions about, from clients who, you know, they look at the projections for Fed Cuts going into next year, and they think about what does that mean for fixed income markets? What does that mean for yields going forward? So, you know, what will you tell to investors in terms of what to expect from bonds in general, but obviously for the income strategy going forward?
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DAN IVASCYN: Well, a lot of short term or near term uncertainty with, you know, some cuts you know, assumed to be coming from the Federal Reserve. But again if you step back and you look at valuations, you know, from a multi-year perspective what you realize is that high quality yields are what are quite attractive in the current environment, both relative to elevated equity valuations relative to tight credit spreads.
And even, you know, when you look at yields, you know, over the course of the last few decades, you know, quite attractive. So the bottom line is you know, as I mentioned earlier, back at the end of 2021, there wasn't much value in the bond market. We had very little exposure in our income oriented strategies.
Today, when we look around the world at the global financial market opportunity set yields in high quality yields in particular look quite attractive.
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We think this is an environment where, you know, within the liquid areas of the opportunity set, you can build a diversified high quality portfolio with a yield in the five, 6% or even greater range with a lot of room for adding some tackle alpha along the way.
And the other piece just relates to cash. It's been a great environment for cash but the cash rate's coming down. It's gonna be the first time in a long time where the cash rate is close to the lowest yield on the board, so to speak. So after a couple of more Fed rate cuts, we do think investors are gonna take a look at the yield curve and consider locking in some of these higher base rates for a longer period of time.
Historically a steepening yield curve with cash rates going lower has been a good time to buy bonds because it's historically served as a catalyst for much more interest or demand in longer maturity bonds. So again, no guarantees this time, but even from a total return perspective we're becoming a bit more optimistic around the relative value proposition of a diversified portfolio of global bonds.
And again, it's felt rough. Inflation's remained high. There's been a decent amount of volatility in the market, a lot of focus on deficits, a lot of focuses, a lot of focus on tariffs. But when you look at our income oriented strategies over the last one year, year to date, three-year period in fairly sneaky fashion we've been able to generate an attractive base case yield, attractive overall, total return, taking into account price performance as well.
And a very, very pleased and proud of the returns we've been able to generate. So we remain, you know, hard at work but also continue to have some decent optimism around returns on a go forward basis.
ESTEBAN BURBANO: Great. Thank you. That's very clear. Dan. I think you, you said it right. The current environment continues to be attractive for bonds.
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