Bonds

Schemes should look to US floating rate loans, high yield and municipal bonds for higher returns in the flattened yield curve environment, according to Eaton Vance.

A quarter of Eurozone sovereign bonds were yielding negative returns in March after the European Central Bank (ECB) began its €1.1trn (£80bn) quantitative easing (QE) programme, figures show.

Amid growing fears that developed equities and bonds are too expensive, Stephanie Baxter asks whether schemes should prepare for bubbles to burst

Terence Prideaux takes a close look at challenges facing the bond market

Many predicted the great rotation from bonds to equities would happen in 2014 but we have yet to see it. Daniel Rudis looks at the likelihood of it happening in 2015.

Con Keating asks how long-term investment can be defined and measured.

Two thirds of investors will rethink their allocations to real assets in the event of a significant rise in interest rates, according to research.

High-yield bonds are an attractive investment proposition in a positive growth environment with the prospect of rising interest rates in 2015, according to Schroders.

John Redwood explains why low oil prices are good news for institutional investors

Deficits of defined benefit (DB) pension schemes have worsened year on year as a result of critically low bond yields, according to JLT Employee Benefits' monthly index.