May, 2022
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Taking a fresh look at investing reserves for institutions
According to the 2022 Global Institutional Investor survey (Natixis), the two biggest concerns for institutional investors in 2022 are inflation and interest rates. It isn’t hard to see why. The global economic slowdown caused by the pandemic sent interest rates plummeting to record lows during the summer of 2020 (MarketWatch), which is why the last […]
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Much ado about rates (and just how much pain is left for bond investors?)
Even if you are not the type that reads the Wall Street Journal every day, interest rates have become downright buzzworthy. It is not often that a simple economic concept enters the lexicon of cocktail parties and casual office water cooler talk alike. Let’s start with the facts. Thirty year mortgage rates have gone from […]