Mark Shohet joins the BlueBay Insights podcast to share his expertise on CLOs and the current market opportunity.

We asked Mark:

1. What is a CLO?
2. How do the debt tranches work in practice?
3. What differentiates a CLO from other securitised products?
4. How big is the CLO market and what are the issuance expectations for this year?
5. What’s performance been like so far in 2022?
6. Are CLOs looking attractive in the current market environment?
7. How are the fundamentals?
8. What do you see as the biggest risk for the asset class?

David Riley is joined by BlueBay’s EM Senior Sovereign Strategist Timothy Ash to discuss the macroeconomic implications of the Russia/Ukraine conflict.

David Riley is joined by BlueBay’s EM Senior Sovereign Strategist Timothy Ash in this special podcast discussing the rapidly escalating Russia-Ukraine conflict.

David Riley shares his views on higher government bond yields, the ECB’s hawkish tilt, new US data points and the global bond market sell-off.

David Riley shares his views on volatility in equity markets, geo-political tensions, and the Fed meeting.

David Riley shares his views on Fed catch up and the move to higher yields.

David Riley updates us on the latest raft of central bank meetings: the Fed’s hawkish pivot, the end of the ECB’s pandemic emergency purchase programme and a rise in Bank of England interest rates.

Tom Moulds & Robert Lambert join the BlueBay Insights podcast to discuss the impact of inflation on the energy and utilities sectors.

We ask:

1. Tom, if you could start us off with a quick summary of the inflationary environment and how it’s impacting fixed income investors.
2. Rob, your specialist focus is utilities. Could you give us an overview of how inflation is impacting the sector? 
3. Which sub-sectors are seeing the most or least pricing pressure?
4. Are we likely to see any beneficiaries of rising inflation and high energy prices?
5. Alongside inflationary pressures, have ESG considerations had any pricing impacts across the utilities sector?
6. When do you expect inflation to subside within the sector?
7. Tom, how are the dynamics within the utilities sector influencing your current portfolio positioning?

Tim Leary and Jeff Cramer join the BlueBay Insights podcast to discuss the impact of inflation on industrials and the power sector and how it’s influencing high yield and leveraged finance strategies.

We ask:

1. Tim, with interest rates rising, inflation is a hot topic for investors. Can you give us a quick summary on the inflation situation and what it means for high yield?
2. Jeff, one of your specialist focus areas is industrials. Could you give us an overview of how inflation is affecting the sector?
3. What’s causing that inflation specifically?
4. Have ESG considerations had any pricing impacts across the power sector, in addition to inflation pressures?
5. When do you expect inflation to subside within the industrial or utilities sectors?
6. To close, let’s consider positioning. Tim, how are the dynamics within the utilities sector influencing your current portfolio positioning?

Chief Investment Strategist David Riley joins us to  discuss inflation as a dominant theme in global markets, and to answer the question, “Is there excessive exuberance in credit markets?”.