Institutional Investor’s Post

It was an honor to be part of the Credit Volatility panel discussion last week at the annual S&P Dow Jones Indices Fixed Income Event!!  Thank you to our panelists Jing Wang from Verition Fund Management LLC, Sam Page from Citi and Dennis O'Callahan from Cboe Global Markets for sharing their insight on the growth and evolution in credit volatility. Some notable highlights from the panel: ·        The growth of CDX swaptions trading volume, which already reached a record high of $7 trillion in 2022, is expected to reach a new high in 2023 ·        Fixed Income ETF options continue to grow alongside CDX swaptions, with notable adoption and growth outside of core credit (IG/HY) such as in rates and emerging markets ·        The recently launched Credit VIX made a splash within the volatility space, and can be used as an indicator for market dislocations within the credit market or as an expected measure of volatility that is strike and tenor agnostic

More interesting insights from Paul Daley and the BondWave Lab. Our QMarks trade benchmark data is nearing ONE MILLION observations and driving enhanced insights into transaction cost and quality. #bonds #innovation #datascience

As electronification continues to develop across trading markets, investment management organisations are increasingly creating multi or cross-asset trading desks to handle combinations of fixed income, equities, FX and derivatives. If you are attending International TraderForum in Rome this week, join Gerard Walsh tomorrow as he moderates a panel exploring how some buyside firms have created successful multi-asset desks, and how they plan to address the challenges that remain. https://bit.ly/3XtVEFt   #NTBankingAndMarkets #InternationalTraderForum

Decreases in trading costs are likely related to several interconnected innovations and trends in fixed income trading – portfolio trading, increased electronification, and corporate bond ETF growth. Read MD Paul Daley’s latest Trade Insights piece where he explores this using BondWave’s TQA Benchmarks. https://lnkd.in/g32HfgZJ #FixedIncome #CorporateBonds

Interesting observations in the US bond market for liquidity.  Given active bond ETFs hold the most AUM and outperform their passive cousins their role in this space is likely to continue. While improving liquidity now what will be the outcome in "other times".  Most folks do not pay attention to the mid-point spread cost, particularly Australian advisers, yet this cost could be more volatile moving forward. #finacialadvice #financialadvisers #financialadvisors #financialplanners #financialplanning #wealthmanagement https://lnkd.in/g9yyH9er

Join our Webinar on ‘Derivatives Monthly Expiry’ with our expert Akshay Bhagwat - Senior Vice President, Equity Derivatives Research, as he covers the following key factors regarding the Derivatives market and trading : ·  August Roadmap ·  F&O Rollover analytics ·  How ‘Smart Money’ is positioned ·  Sectors to watch out for Date : 26th July Time : 4 pm. Link to Register for our ‘Derivatives Monthly Expiry’ Webinar - https://bit.ly/4cKwAiy AKSHAY BHAGWAT #JMFinancialServices #Webinar #StockMarketIndia #ExpertWebinar #TalkingFinance #StayInformed #StockMarket #DerivativesTrading

Is the 'Bonds Are Back' hype impacting Fixed Income ETF allocations? With the Federal Reserve reducing interest rates, Envestnet Wealth Management Platform data indicated a surge in investor interest in fixed income opportunities. Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) may provide an attractive vehicle to tap into the current bond market. For a deeper dive into the shifting allocations, visit https://lnkd.in/ejZ35Uv5.

Actively managed ETFs have gained popularity, comprising 25% of industry inflows in 2024. Data from VettaFi's Q3 Fixed Income Symposium shows 63% of advisors believe in active management, with some notable active bond ETFs including JPMorgan's JPST and JMST, PIMCO's MINT and LDUR, and Fidelity's FBND and FTBD. As interest grows, more products are expected to thrive.</div><div class="read-more"><a href="" class="more-link">Continue reading</a>https://lnkd.in/gFvCsSNR

Let's build better indices for fixed income, and cut the noise! In late 2023, we decided to utilize ICE’s 4pm Fair Value price for our fixed income index family on days the bond market and equity market are disjointed (early close). On December 29th, 2023 ICE’s indices better reflected the market after 1pm EST and significantly reduced tracking error to ETFs that track our indices. Take TLT ETF (iShares 20 Year Treasury Bond ETF) for example, if we had used a traditional 1pm EST snapshot, tracking error would have been 45bps! We cut the noise down to less than 5bps.   Read more about it https://lnkd.in/e2HpWCHb