1 / 25

Fixed Income Options in Today’s Economy by John Milne, CEO JKMilne Asset Management

Fixed Income Options in Today’s Economy by John Milne, CEO JKMilne Asset Management. What Are The Fixed Income Options? More than ever:. Process: Active or Passive Style: Sector Rotator or Duration Manager

marli
Download Presentation

Fixed Income Options in Today’s Economy by John Milne, CEO JKMilne Asset Management

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Fixed Income Options in Today’s Economy by John Milne, CEO JKMilne Asset Management

  2. What Are The Fixed Income Options?More than ever: • Process: Active or Passive • Style: Sector Rotator or Duration Manager • Decision Basis: Macro Economy drives Top-Down decisions? Or are decisions driven from the Bottom-Up byMicro Economic factors such as credit selection, issue structure and/or, optionality? • There are increasingly more clearly defined style differences in Fixed Income that became evident in 2008.

  3. What Are The Fixed Income Options?More than ever: continued • There are more “sub asset” classes such as Investment Grade, High Yield, Non-US, Distressed…and more. • Who do you want managing your money? Big Box, Boutique, Mutual Fund, ETF? • Is the money managers ownership structure important? Independent? • Critical Decisions…the “vehicle” used to acquire the above characteristics.

  4. Why Are The Vehicles Important? Manager risk has become as great as investment risk.

  5. The Fixed Income Opportunity Decision Tree

  6. There Are Long and Significant Secular Opportunities in Fixed Income Source of yield data “Analytical Record of Yields & Yield Spreads” Saloman Brothers

  7. What is a common active bond market index? • Primarily U.S. investment-grade markets • Liquid and does not include cash Barclays Capital Aggregate Index Source: Barclays Capital As of July 31, 2010

  8. Barclays Aggregate Index Quality Exposure Source: Barclays Capital As of July 31, 2010

  9. Barclays Corporate Bond Quality Exposure Source: Barclays Capital As of July 31, 2010

  10. It’s Not Your Grandfathers Bond Market • Corporates are increasingly correlated to the equity market • The Total AAA Corporate Issuers are: • ADP • Microsoft • Johnson & Johnson • The result is a market heavily reliant on credit decisions

  11. Historical Interest Rates 10yr Tsy Note Source: Bloomberg

  12. Treasury Yield Curve Source: Barclays Capital As of August 31, 2010

  13. Yield Spread between the 2yr and 10yr Tsy Notes Source: Bloomberg

  14. Market Returns Source: Barclays Capital As of August 31, 2010

  15. US Aggregate Year to Date Excess Returns Source: Barclays Capital As of August 31, 2010

  16. What’s New? Liability Driven Investment (LDI)

  17. Government Debt as a % of GDP

  18. Selected Countries: Public Debt-to-GDP Ratio(In percent) Sources: United Kingdom: Goodhart (1999) and IMF, World Economic Outlook database. United States: Historical Statistics of the United States, Millennial Edition Online; Office of Management and Budget; and U.S. Census Bureau. Japan: Bank of Japan, Hundred-Year Statistics of the Japanese Economy; and Toyo Keizai Shinposa, Estimates of Long-Term Economic Statistics of Japan Since 1868. Data for Japan refer to the central government.

  19. The Reality of Fixed Income Options “Let’s get real” • Interest rates are near or at record lows depending on if we look at short term or long term rates. • US GDP has been losing “velocity” for 50 years now. • The US is in a second jobless recovery. • 245 million Americans over the age of 16 with 80 million not working (for any reason). Source: US DOL, JKMAM

  20. What Are the Market Options? • Hey, rates stayed this low for 12 years between 1946 and 1958. It does happen. • Whoa, rates can go lower with low inflation or continued dis-inflation. • No one in this room lived with deflation and its consequences so we take the scenario off the table for investment purposes.

  21. Snapple Cap Fact • Interest rates can go negative, you pay someone to borrow your money. MARCH 26, 2009 US Treasury 1Month TBill -.005%

  22. Fixed Income Options in Today’s Economy • Investors have more options to DIVERSIFY style, process, and culture of their fixed income MANAGERS. • A very unique period that does not have any leadership creates the opportunity to insert OPPORTUNISTIC strategies. That is, hire a manager on the pretense that they will be terminated upon success.

  23. TAKE AWAY • There is a need to find the optimal combination of NIMBLENESS and HIGH CONVICTION in the same investment process. • That is to say, the “off the chart” low yields and high volatility need to be managed well or you will risk significant losses in bonds and fracture the manager.

More Related