Optimism grows for EMD while increasing yields remains top priority

Vontobel survey

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Three-quarters of institutional investors are optimistic about the outlook for emerging markets bonds and are likely to increase their exposure over the next two years, according to a new survey.

Boutique manager Vontobel, which assessed the views of over 200 institutional investors across Europe, North America and Asia Pacific, also found that increasing yields is the top priority for fixed income investors, with inflation and monetary policy the key issues dominating asset owners' macroeconomic considerations. Amundi: EM energy transition is a 'low hanging fruit' Asia Pacific investors see increasing yields and ensuring liquidity as equally important concerns (55%), while the latter was a slightly lower priority (49%) for North American and European asset owners. Alignmen...

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