GIM News and Press, Templeton Global Income Fund Inc. From 09/05/19

Elga discusses how conventional and unconventional monetary policy space is limited and rapidly being used up even before central banks respond to the next downturn, let alone a full-blown recession. This is the second in a series of four blogs on the topic of "Dealing with the next downturn....

By Jeffrey Kleintop If Japan represents what the debt and demographic future looks like for many countries, then the future for investors in a world of negative bond yields may lead to more stock market exposure. Japan as the future Japan was the first major country to: Adopt a zer...

The Weekly Closed-End Fund Roundup will be put out at the start of each week to summarize recent price movements in closed-end fund ((CEF)) sectors in the last week, as well as to highlight recently concluded or upcoming corporate actions on CEFs, such as tender offers. Most of the informati...

All we keep hearing is that the precipitous decline in our interest rates means a dramatic economic slowdown/recession is on the horizon in the U.S. Nope! Au contraire. Our longer duration rates have declined as foreigners have been buying our debt with both hands as interest rates abroad are ...

In some parts of the world, bonds are yielding less than zero. Karen explains how that can happen, what it means for your portfolio and moves to consider. Global interest rates have seesawed in 2019. At the start of the year, most investors expected higher interest rates, only to see them ...

Intro Dr. Michael Hasenstab (see bio here ) began working at Franklin Templeton Funds in California in 1995. Aside from taking time off to earn his PhD, he has spent his whole career with the fund family. He manages several funds, including the Templeton Global Bond Fund ( TGBAX ), Temple...

The Weekly Closed-End Fund Roundup will be put out at the start of each week to summarize recent price movements in closed-end fund [CEF] sectors in the last week, as well as to highlight recently concluded or upcoming corporate actions on CEFs, such as tender offers. Most of the information...

And if they had the words I could tell to you To help you on the way down the road I couldn't quote you no Dickens, Shelley or Keats 'Cause it's all been said before Make the best out of the bad just laugh it off You didn't have to come here anyway So remember, every picture tell...

Originally published on Aug. 20, 2019 By Philip Lawlor, managing director, head of global markets research The inversion of a widely watched part of the US Treasury yield curve last week has rattled markets already nervous about slowing global growth. Such events warrant attention give...

Trump and his team just don't get it! It's their trade policy that is responsible for grinding global growth to a halt. Can you imagine business-planning: capital spending, hiring, and the like, when a tweet could change the environment in a second? Managing money is impacted by Trump's twee...