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As an investment director in Investment Products and Strategies, Amar works closely with investors to help ensure the integrity of their fixed income investment approaches. This includes meeting regularly with fixed income investment teams and overseeing portfolio positioning, performance, and risk exposures, as well as developing new products and client solutions and managing business issues such as capacity, fees, and guidelines. He also meets with clients, prospects, and consultants to communicate our investment philosophy, strategy, positioning, and performance.
With a sustained rise in interest rates in the coming months a distinct possibility as of this writing, we thought now would be an opportune time to take a close look at some potential impacts of higher rates on clients’ fixed income portfolios. To do so, we compared the hypothetical five-year performance of the Bloomberg US Aggregate Bond Index under three different illustrative scenarios that could play out going forward: 1) rates remain unchanged; 2) rates rise abruptly; and 3) rates rise gradually (i.e., over three years).
A few of our main takeaways from this analysis were as follows:
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