The S&P 500® recently entered a bear market, with prices dropping 20% from their yearly highs. Prices have since rebounded, but in the current climate of uncertainty, investors are faced with decisions, particularly surrounding their fixed income holdings.
When markets fall, investors traditionally look to their fixed income holdings to provide ballast. However, recently contagion factors pulled bonds down alongside stocks. How has the market responded to market volatility and what may investors learn from this? How does market volatility relate to fixed income indexing and how can index-based fixed income strategies be strengthened to weather uncertain climates?
Join us for the next IPE webcast “Fixed income in volatile markets” sponsored by iShares. Vasiliki Pachatouridi, Managing Director, Head of iShares Fixed Income Product Strategy EMEA, and Smadar Shulman, Managing Director, Head of Fixed Income Indices, EMEA at S&P Dow Jones Indices, will discuss what they expect from fixed income throughout the rest of the year, with a focus on how bond ETFs have performed in bear markets.