Market Pulse

Market Pulse • 30-Mar-2021 • 8:42 Min
Fixed Income Update with Kevin Lynyak Fixed Income Managed Solutions Kevin Lynyak, Head of Fixed Income Managed Solutions and Lead Fixed Income Portfolio Manager, discusses trends, risks and opportunities in the fixed income markets. Listen now.

Market Pulse • 16-Mar-2021 • 10:22 Min
Fixed Income Update with Kevin Lynyak Fixed Income Managed Solutions Kevin Lynyak, Head of Fixed Income Managed Solutions and Lead Fixed Income Portfolio Manager, discusses trends, risks and opportunities in the fixed income markets. Listen now.

Market Pulse • 02-Mar-2021 • 16:47 Min
Fixed Income Update with Kevin Lynyak Fixed Income Managed Solutions Kevin Lynyak, Head of Fixed Income Managed Solutions and Lead Fixed Income Portfolio Manager, discusses trends, risks and opportunities in the fixed income markets. Listen now.

Market Pulse • 11-Jan-2021 • 10:37 Min
Fixed Income Update with Kevin Lynyak Fixed Income Managed Solutions Kevin Lynyak, Head of Fixed Income Managed Solutions and Lead Fixed Income Portfolio Manager, discusses trends, risks and opportunities in the fixed income markets. Listen now.

Market Pulse • 16-Dec-2020 • 9:42 Min
The Case for Commodities This Decade Active International Allocation Team Jitania Kandhari, Head of Macroeconomic Research for the Global Emerging Markets Team and Co-Manager of the Active International Allocation Portfolio, discusses commodities and their potential long-term benefit to emerging market economies.

Market Pulse • 14-Dec-2020 • 7:11 Min
A Few Things Still on the Shopping List: Macro and Politics Do Not Take Days Off Global Fixed Income Team Jim Caron, Portfolio Manager and Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.

Market Pulse • 07-Dec-2020 • 6:59 Min
Will the U.S. Job Loss Scarring Be Permanent? Global Fixed Income Team Jim Caron, Portfolio Manager and Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.

Market Pulse • 02-Dec-2020
The Year Ahead for the U.S.: Fundamental Challenges Exist, but Policy Will Prevail Global Fixed Income Team Jim Caron, Portfolio Manager and Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides a timely insight on the fixed income markets today.

Market Pulse • 30-Nov-2020 • 7:42 Min
What the Bond Market Is Telling Us About the Future of the Economy Global Fixed Income Team Jim Caron, Portfolio Manager and Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.

Market Pulse • 16-Nov-2020 • 6:24 Min
First Look at 2021: Too Much Liquidity Chasing Too Few Assets Global Fixed Income Team Jim Caron, Portfolio Manager and Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.

Market Pulse • 09-Nov-2020 • 7:21 Min
Presidential Election Series: The 4 Major Market Implications of a “No Blue Wave” Scenario Global Fixed Income Team Jim Caron, Portfolio Manager and Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.

Market Pulse • 02-Nov-2020 • 6:25 Min
Presidential Election Series: Expect More Questions Than Answers – and Rising Volatility Global Fixed Income Team Jim Caron, Portfolio Manager and Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.

Market Pulse • 30-Oct-2020 • 09:39 Min
The Markets and Presidential Elections Through a Historical Lens Active International Allocation Team Jitania Kandhari, Head of Macroeconomic Research for the Global Emerging Markets Team and Co-Portfolio Manager of the Active International Allocation Portfolio, takes a historical look at the markets and presidential elections.

INSIGHT AUDIO • 30-Oct-2020
Presidential Election Series With Jim Caron Global Fixed Income Team Jim Caron, Portfolio Manager and Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.

Market Pulse • 26-Oct-2020 • 7:44 Min
Presidential Election Series: Pricing in the Return of Demand Global Fixed Income Team Jim Caron, Portfolio Manager and Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.

PATH • 23-Oct-2020
Market Update: A Silver Lining on the Horizon Andrew Harmstone, Manfred Hui, Christian Goldsmith The GBaR team provides an update on its latest market views and asset allocation positioning.

Market Pulse • 19-Oct-2020
Presidential Election Series: The Impact of the Tax and Spending Plans Global Fixed Income Team Jim Caron, Portfolio Manager and Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.

Market Pulse • 05-Oct-2020 • 7:43 Min
Bonds Are Repricing on the U.S. Election Global Fixed Income Team Jim Caron, Portfolio Manager and Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.

Market Pulse • 28-Sep-2020
October Discovery: Is the Price Right? Global Fixed Income Team Jim Caron, Portfolio Manager and Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.

Market Pulse • 21-Sep-2020 • 6:42 Min
A Mixed Bag of Data, but Optimism About the Future Global Fixed Income Team Jim Caron, Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.

Market Pulse • 14-Sep-2020 • 4:47 Min
Fed Focus: Credit Rates and Solvency Risk Global Fixed Income Team Jim Caron, Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.

PATH • 08-Sep-2020
Warning: Ice on the road ahead Andrew Harmstone, Manfred Hui, Christian Goldsmith The GBaR team provides an update on its latest market views and asset allocation positioning.

Market Pulse • 08-Sep-2020 • 6:01 Min
Risk Off Today, but a Silver Lining Is on the Horizon Global Fixed Income Team Jim Caron, Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.

Market Pulse • 31-Aug-2020 • 5:58 Min
History in the Making: A Reworking of Fed Policy Global Fixed Income Team Jim Caron, Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.

PATH • 21-Aug-2020
Global markets: China’s positive outlook may not benefit the rest of the world Andrew Harmstone, Manfred Hui, Christian Goldsmith The GBaR team provides an update on its latest market views and asset allocation positioning.

Market Pulse • 21-Aug-2020
Where to Go From Here? Reimagining the Fed’s Policy Response Function Global Fixed Income Team In his latest Market Pulse, Jim Caron looks at how investors are incentivized to align with the Fed's policy response function, which should broadly support asset prices and ease financial conditions.

Market Pulse • 29-Jul-2020
Market Pulse with Jim Caron: The Fed Keeps Rates Low While the Dollar Weakens Global Fixed Income Team Jim Caron, Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today.

Market Pulse • 06-Jul-2020 • 6:36 Min
Will the Sizzle Fizzle? Global Fixed Income Team Jim Caron, Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.

Market Pulse • 29-Jun-2020 • 7:00 Min
Policy or Pandemic: Which Will Drive Asset Prices? Global Fixed Income Team Jim Caron, Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.

Market Pulse • 22-Jun-2020 • 3:45 Min
Q3 2020: Better? Yes. But Good Enough? Global Fixed Income Team Jim Caron, Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.

Market Pulse • 15-Jun-2020 • 8:12 Min
Credit Check with Richard Ford Global Fixed Income Team Credit markets have been under tremendous pressure. What should investors think? Richard Ford, Global Head of Credit, offers his views. Listen now.

Market Pulse • 15-Jun-2020 • 5:48 Min
New Normal? No Such Thing. The Market is Just Establishing a New Range. Global Fixed Income Team Jim Caron, Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.

Market Pulse • 08-Jun-2020 • 6:31 Min
The Reopening Rally and the Fed’s Forward Guidance Global Fixed Income Team Jim Caron, Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.

Market Pulse • 01-Jun-2020 • 6:36 Min
Follow the Money, Find the Performance Global Fixed Income Team Jim Caron, Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.

Market Pulse • 28-May-2020 • 3:05 Min
In a High Yield Minute Global Fixed Income Team Corporate liquidity profiles have been severely challenged during the lockdown. Sarah Harrison, Head of European High Yield, believes the policy response in Europe so far has helped stem default rates, and further action has the potential to restore investor confidence in the European High Yield asset class. Listen now.

Market Pulse • 26-May-2020
The Breadth of the Market Is Encouraging Global Fixed Income Team Jim Caron, Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.

Market Pulse • 18-May-2020 • 5:59 Min
Credit Check with Richard Ford Global Fixed Income Team Credit markets have been under tremendous pressure. What should investors think? Richard Ford, Global Head of Credit, offers his views. Listen now.

Market Pulse • 18-May-2020 • 6:32 Min
Never Say Never: The Pros and Cons of Negative Interest Rates Global Fixed Income Team Jim Caron, Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.

Market Pulse • 13-May-2020
Where Are Bond Yields Going? It depends on what part of the curve you are asking about. Global Fixed Income Team The goal of the Fed’s policy response function is to prevent the liquidity crisis brought on by Covid-19 from becoming a solvency crisis. Jim Caron reviews the impact on bond yields.

Market Pulse • 11-May-2020
Jobs Report: Is the Worst Behind Us? Global Fixed Income Team Jim Caron, Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.

Market Pulse • 07-May-2020 • 4:31 Min
Bank of England Update and U.K. Outlook Anton Heese Anton Heese, European Macro Strategist for the Global Fixed Income Team, offers his perspective on the May 7 Bank of England Monetary Policy Decision. Listen now.

Market Pulse • 05-May-2020
The Market vs The Economy Global Fixed Income Team the Market Outlook is contingent on a combination of knowns and unknowns, in varying degrees:

Market Pulse • 04-May-2020 • 8:51 Min
Credit Check with Richard Ford Global Fixed Income Team Credit markets have been under tremendous pressure. What should investors think? Richard Ford, Global Head of Credit, offers his views. Listen now.

Market Pulse • 04-May-2020 • 4:30 Min
The Risks Ahead: An Historically Weak Jobs Report & New U.S./China Tensions Global Fixed Income Team Jim Caron, Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.

Market Pulse • 29-Apr-2020

The Fed: Playing a Strong Hand but Unwilling to Show Their Cards

Global Fixed Income Team

On April 29 the Fed indicated the need to keep credit flowing, for both for businesses and individuals. To date most of the Fed’s actions are supporting credit in the business sector, to the point where we do not believe the Fed has done enough with respect to consumer credit, particularly in light of their statements about keeping credit flowing to the “real economy.” Jim Caron looks at a Fed that is playing a strong hand, but unwilling to show all its cards.

Market Pulse • 27-Apr-2020 • 4:51 Min
Market Pulse with Jim Caron: A Big Week for Global Central Banks Global Fixed Income Team Jim Caron, Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.

Market Pulse • 23-Apr-2020 • 04:24 Min
EM Leaders: Looking to Future Growth Global Emerging Markets Team Vishal Gupta, Portfolio Manager on the Global Emerging Markets team, discusses the impact of COVID-19 on the Emerging Markets Leaders strategy. Listen now.

Market Pulse • 23-Apr-2020 • 2:56 Min
The Case for EM in the Post-Pandemic World Global Emerging Markets Team Jitania Kandhari, Head of Macroeconomic Research on the Global Emerging Markets team and portfolio manager for the Emerging Markets Breakout Nations and Active International Allocation strategies, provides timely insights on why we believe now is the time for emerging market equities. Listen now.

Market Pulse • 20-Apr-2020 • 6:21 Min
Whatever It Takes: Loan Programs, Oil & the Reopening of America Global Fixed Income Team Jim Caron, Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.

Market Pulse • 20-Apr-2020
Recent Fed Actions: Implications for the High Yield Market Global Fixed Income Team The Fed’s involvement in the high yield market is unprecedented, so there is no prior history to look back upon as a guide. The Global High Yield team explores how the action could impact investors.

Market Pulse • 15-Apr-2020
Allocating Fixed Income Assets Through the Great Unknown Global Fixed Income Team We are facing a health crisis the likes of which we have not witnessed for close to a century. A seismic move to de-risk portfolios has created volatility and illiquidity not seen since 2008, and it is against this uncertain backdrop we invest today. Read more about the Global Fixed Income Team’s best thinking.

Market Pulse • 13-Apr-2020 • 6:36 Min
Market Pulse with Jim Caron: The Alphabet Soup of Liquidity & Solvency Global Fixed Income Team Jim Caron, Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.

Market Pulse • 06-Apr-2020 • 4:44 Min
Credit Check with Richard Ford Global Fixed Income Team Credit markets have been under tremendous pressure. What should investors think? Richard Ford, Global Head of Credit, offers his views. Listen now.

Market Pulse • 06-Apr-2020 • 4:27 Min
Credit Beat with Joseph Mehlman Global Fixed Income Team Joseph Mehlman, Head of U.S. Credit, provides timely insights on the fast-changing world of U.S. credit markets. Listen now.

Market Pulse • 06-Apr-2020 • 6:15 Min
Market Pulse with Jim Caron: A Silver Lining - Volatility Is Dropping Global Fixed Income Team Jim Caron, Head of Global Macro Strategies, provides timely insights on what’s driving fixed income markets today. Listen now.

Market Pulse • 02-Apr-2020
Building a Better Transmission Mechanism: Extending Credit to the Real Economy Global Fixed Income Team It's critical to understand the policy reaction functions designed to support markets during times of crisis because it provides insight into which assets may perform best as the economy moves out of the crisis environment.

Market Pulse • 31-Mar-2020
Rating Agencies Action Summary Global Fixed Income Team The COVID-19 crisis has disrupted supply chains of many companies and caused commodity prices to fall. How will rating agencies react to this disruption? The Global Credit research team explores.