Investment analysis for yield and duration-focused investors
Investors have long assumed that green bonds carry a “greenium,” requiring lower yields than comparable conventional bonds. While this was often true in the market’s early years, growing market dep...
This year, fixed income markets have exhibited elevated levels of interest rate volatility, whereas credit spread volatility has been more contained.
AI is creating opportunity, but risks abound. Investors should prepare for a range of outcomes. Global equities rebounded in the second quarter as confidence in the AI investment cycle strengthened...
AI is reinforcing prime office demand in the short term, but the bigger question is whether productivity gains will ultimately limit hiring and space needs.
Emerging markets have weathered another external shock well, as the latest move in energy prices translated into a more manageable inflation impulse than initially feared. In this week’s Bond Bulle...
A less transparent Fed could increase uncertainty, weaken policy transmission and raise market volatility as investors lose key signals on rates and risk.
Portfolio Manager Michael Marzouk discusses the macro signals he is watching, the case for floating-rate income, and why credit selection remains critical after 15 years of managing through changin...
Changes in markets present new challenges to DB plans. Innovations in fixed income investing have introduced SAFI strategies that may offer plans a range of benefits
Risks are evolving, but so are opportunities. Here’s how to take advantage. The war in Iran has delivered an oil shock into a bond market that had not fully shaken inflation pressures. Higher energ...
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