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Following the global financial crisis (GFC), bond yields declined for 15 years as central banks sought to avoid deflation taking hold. Markets may have come to accept low yields and limited market volatility as the norm, but I think this period of low inflation from 2008 to 2022 was an anomaly relative to history, as illustrated in Figure 1.
Research by our macro strategists suggests that inflation is likely to remain structurally higher and more volatile and economic cycles are likely to be shorter and more pronounced. The resulting investment backdrop may be more challenging, but it may also deliver new opportunities for active fixed income investors because, in my view, bonds have regained their historic role in portfolios — offering investors a stable source of income as well as the potential for downside protection and diversification:
In my view, today’s new economic era underlines the strategic case for fixed income and brings with it a wide range of investment opportunities for active, research-driven strategies.
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