by Aptus PM Team | Jun 10, 2020 | Blog, Fixed Income
Avoiding Agency Mortgage Allocations in our Models We’ve been saying since the middle of last year that the percentage of total returns in fixed income coming from price return wouldn’t likely be the same into the future. Interest rates have nosedived lower following...
by Aptus PM Team | May 30, 2020 | Blog, Fixed Income
The mathematics of compounding: big losses are essentially ALL that matter to your rate of compounding, not the small losses—and not even the big or small gains. The big losses literally destroy your geometric returns and, equivalently, your wealth, through what I...
by Aptus PM Team | May 1, 2020 | Blog, Fixed Income
The Fed has taken drastic measures attempting to fight against the economic implications from the COVID-19 crisis. Their actions have been more swift and wider-arching than during the GFC. The Fed has implemented lending facilities to ease liquidity concerns, reduced...
by Aptus PM Team | Apr 29, 2020 | Blog, Fixed Income
As we navigate through these very uncertain times, we’d like to take a deeper dive into different sectors of the fixed income and credit space. The fixed income markets are enormous and complex with a wide spectrum of products offering unique risk and return profiles....
by Aptus PM Team | Mar 3, 2020 | Blog, Fixed Income
This is probably a little more granular than past posts, but I think it is important to use my background in fixed income trading/ credit analysis to roll back the curtain of the asset class and dig into root problems we regularly discuss with our advisors concerning...
by JD Gardner | Feb 14, 2020 | Blog, Fixed Income, Risk
Venk Reddy has an article on Advisor Perspectives, Robbing 2020 to Pay 2019: A Reality Check for Fixed Income, and it needs to be read! We’ve been screaming about the issues with bonds and the implications moving forward with our advisors, Venk unpacks similar...
