Market Insights

This article includes commentary on how low global yields have pushed investors to search for income wherever they can find it, including preferred shares, touted as fixed income-like instruments with higher yields.

This article consists of commentary on the Fed's first rate cut in 10 years, Fed stimulus, and the factors that can push spreads lower, especially in the BBB space.

Until recently, alternative investments have been almost exclusively available to institutions and high net worth investors who have used these strategies to generate returns in low rate environments, preserve capital in down markets and produce a steadier path to their target returns - improving their overall investment experience.
Recent regulatory changes now level the playing field giving retail investors access to the benefits of alternative solutions in a more liquid mutual fund structure.
An 'alternative'choice now exists to diversify portfolios outside of traditional equity, bond and cash assets.

This article includes of commentary on how volatile markets have been defined by quickly-changing dynamics and why unconstrained fixed income strategies, such as RP Select Opportunities, best meet the needs of investors facing the uncertainties of today’s environment.

Back to the Future examines how US-China trade negotiations have re-ignited market speculation that the Fed and Bank of Canada will take a much more accommodative stance versus prior periods.

This article includes commentary on how dovish central banks have continued to support credit performance in April.

This whitepaper includes insight regarding how 2018 saw investors struggle to reconcile slower economic growth with hawkish central bank signaling.