Last autumn’s Gilts price collapse required an unprecedented intervention from the Bank of England, causing tremendous stress for investors with LDI portfolios. With the dust settled and the finger-pointing complete, we'll explore what actually happened and discuss the lessons learned for collateral management as well as the new LDI guidance from the regulators.
 

Impact investment is now a mature theme that many institutional investors have been deploying for some time. The Covid pandemic, the war in Ukraine and the cost of living crises served as catalysts for greater focus on the social side of impact investing.  How can the social impact market grow beyond social ‘shocks’

Incorporating ESG into corporate and sovereign bonds has been a long-standing challenge, with irregular data and a negative correlation between positive ESG scores and low yields. But investing across the ‘ESG risk spectrum’ may provide the opportunity to fund the net zero transition while producing higher levels of return.

Technological innovation, price transparency and the rise of index investing/ETFs have profoundly changed how bond markets function today. The implications are far-reaching for market participants, from trading and liquidity management to portfolio construction. How can investors navigate this new landscape and poise themselves to take advantage of it?

As investors seek returns while shielding assets from turbulent markets, opinions vary on fixed income’s future role. Should investors limit their exposure to illiquid credit now that investment grade is more attractive? Expand their gilts and other sovereign fixed-income allocations? Will the share of fixed-income assets in defined contribution default funds change? Our panel of fixed-income experts debate all the angles.