CIO Adam Petryk challenges the claim that low volatility has become fully valued,

Value investors, trend followers, global-macro or volatility arbitragers, to name just a few, each offer a different way of generating returns.

S&P Capital IQ is pleased to release the Global Sovereign Debt Credit Risk Report (formerly CMA) for 1st Quarter 2013. The paper focuses on changes in the risk profile of sovereign debt issuers, with the intention to identify key trends and drivers of change.

• If systemic risk is receding, even in a low growth environment, investment-grade credit will continue to do well

Political risk is a primary concern for this decade; impacting advanced economies once thought immune to them.

We believe in two key calls for 2013:

Michel Cannoy discusses how he feels ‘Bubble Camp' is much too strong a term for the current state of gilts and what his take is on the divisive subject of bank debt.

The concept of managing tail risk as part of investors’ overall risk-management objectives is not new, but it has gained a considerable profile as a result of the major tail risk events that characterised the 2008-09 global financial crisis and subsequent market volatility.

Investors continue to be frustrated by the lacklustre performance of emerging market equities. But why has the asset class disappointed? Is something fundamentally broken? In this paper, these questions and more are explored by Emerging Market Macro Strategist, George Iwanicki

In this guide, Threadneedle investigate the bond market and its different sectors, as well as the risks and rewards associated with various types of bond.