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With the phase 1 agreement officially on paper, the Chinese Yuan has returned to the level it was before the trade war hit its culmination point in August – on January 15th, the PBOC set the currency at 6.8845 USD/CNY (0.14525 CNY/USD), its strongest since the end of July last year. Yet the U.S. 10-year […]

In a normal yield environment, long-term bonds come with a higher yield than shorter bonds, allowing owners to roll down the yield curve.

Just as one source of investor angst faded at the beginning of 2020, another intensified. After simmering trade tensions fueled a blockbuster start to the year, sentiment took a turn for the worse after the outbreak of the Wuhan coronavirus threatened to derail an already-fragile global growth backdrop. The epidemic, and efforts to contain it […]

Description: Fiera Capital's Global Chief Investment Officer, François Bourdon, shares his outlook for financial markets over the next 7 years.

Once upon a time, the bond roll down provided just that. The roll down allows buy-and-hold investors to generate gains beyond just the coupon on their bonds. Under a normal (that is, upward-sloping) yield curve, as longer bonds age, they are discounted using a lower rate as they come down the yield curve. For example, […]

Nicolas Vaugeois, Portfolio Manager, Global Asset Allocation, discusses the benefits of investing in emerging market bonds and shares his current underweights and investment ideas for 2020.

Traditionally, risk and return are the two most important considerations in the realm of investment management. Modern Portfolio Theory hypothesizes that investors can construct optimal – or “efficient” – portfolios which maximize expected returns by taking on a quantifiable and specific amount of risk.

Since 2008, the economy and financial markets have been driven by extraordinary actions from central banks, a thirst for yield, falling productivity and a prolonged expansion characterized by very low inflation. We continue to expect the next seven years to be driven by a return to normality in central bank activities and productivity. Demographics should […]

In the fourth quarter of 2019, there were 35,155 consumer insolvency filings, according to Canada’s Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy. That’s the highest since 2010 and about 5,000 shy of the record reached in the third quarter of 2009. For the full year, over 137,000 Canadians declared bankruptcy, 9.5% more than the previous year […]

We are well into earnings season for the final quarter of 2019, but one could be forgiven for not noticing. After all, Coronavirus fears and the accompanying environment of heightened uncertainty have stolen the headlines.