Multi Asset
Guaranteed income and growth in retirement... are both within reach?
Georgina Taylor, head of multi-asset, explores how combining traditional investments and guaranteed income can enhance retirement outcomes and legacy potential.
Since the global financial crisis, we continue to live in an increasingly low yield world. There has been hope that highly accommodative rates across the major developed economies would eventually drive a meaningful acceleration in global GDP and a normalised rate environment.
However, that has not happened. Instead, after seeing short term European rates hold in negative territory for several years and US rates at historical lows, we saw global rates driven even lower by the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused the most highly synchronised contraction in global GDP in modern history.
While uncertainty remains high, we do think it is reasonable to expect that this environment of extremely low interest rates is here to stay for at least the next few years.
Our latest white paper reveals how Emerging Market Investment Grade Debt could help you capture higher yields, while maintaining credit quality and capital requirements.
In this low-yielding environment, Emerging Market Investment Grade Debt could offer:
Guaranteed income and growth in retirement... are both within reach?
Georgina Taylor, head of multi-asset, explores how combining traditional investments and guaranteed income can enhance retirement outcomes and legacy potential.
Emerging market investment grade debt for insurance companies
At Invesco, we have extensive experience investing in EM debt and working with institutional clients to provide tailored solutions that can meet their exact requirements.
The case for municipal bonds
US municipal bonds are worth considering for European investors portfolios as they may provide a source of diversification and for their relative value compared to Euro corporate bonds.
The value of investments and any income will fluctuate (this may partly be the result of exchange rate fluctuations) and investors may not get back the full amount invested.
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Data as at 31 December 2020, unless otherwise stated.