The TwentyFour Blog
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For Professional Investors only. Tweets from the PM team at TwentyFour Asset Management, a fixed-income boutique based in London. We are specialists in fixed income, headquartered in the City of London and a boutique of the Swiss-based Vontobel Group. Head to our blog which provides common fixed income investment themes and some more technical portfolio management techniques.
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12h ago
Volatility made an unwanted come back this week. A combination of rising tensions in the Middle East, strong Consumer Price Index (CPI) and labour market data in the US in previous days, and markets that looked somewhat expensive in certain sectors, all conspired to cause a widening in spreads and a correction in equity prices ..read more
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12h ago
Following yesterday’s release of Italian energy company Enel's 2023 annual sustainability report, it was confirmed that they had failed to meet the emissions reduction key performance indicator (KPI) linked to a number of their sustainability linked bonds (SLBs ..read more
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12h ago
Money supply measures such as M1 and M2 enjoyed a relatively brief period of fame and glory just after the pandemic ..read more
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1w ago
Labour market data in the US was stronger than expected on Friday. US Treasuries reacted accordingly with a 10 bps sell-off with Gilts and Bunds moving in the same direction but in a calmer fashion ..read more
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1w ago
We previously blogged about Thames Water in July last year but it’s rapidly refloated to the top of UK credit market concerns. Following more recent events, where do we think Thames Water go from here ..read more
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1w ago
The US Consumer Price Index (CPI) surprised on the upside for the third month in a row. There was nowhere to hide in the release with a majority of sub categories and sub aggregates posting worse numbers than expected ..read more
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1w ago
The Additional Tier 1's product was first launched in early 2013, so the asset class has mostly seen the period of negative interest rates and challenging operating environment post the Euro zone crisis ..read more
The TwentyFour Blog
1w ago
The NFIB (National Federation of Independent Business) survey can most certainly be considered an important report that monitors the pulse of the US economy ..read more
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3w ago
Quarter ends are always a useful time to take a step back and assess what the main macro drivers during the quarter were, which trades worked and which did not and to refresh macro views for the next period ..read more
The TwentyFour Blog
3w ago
It has been an eventful few weeks in the European high yield market. After waiting a long time for a bus to come along, three have come along at once ..read more