IVH News and Press, Ivy High Income Opportunities Fund of Beneficial Interest From 04/06/20

By Scott DiMaggio and Gershon Distenfeld Most of the global bond market sold off sharply in the first quarter as the coronavirus crisis emerged and intensified. Economic activity halted across much of the world. Credit spreads—yields relative to comparable-maturity government bond ...

As a professional bond manager glued to a screen watching prices every day, it's hard to fathom that just a few weeks ago when March began corporate bond spreads were below historical averages¹. Flash forward, through what seemed like an eternity at the desk (or home office!), and those s...

Anthony Okolie recaps the biggest news of the day including the latest COVID-19 developments, followed by a conversation with Greg Kocik, Head of High Yield Bond Group, TD Asset Management, about the potential opportunities in the high yield and corporate bond space. Original Post ...

By Brian Levitt, Global Market Strategist, North America ; Timothy Horsburgh, CFA, Investment Strategist ; and Talley Léger, Senior Investment Strategist Our Global Market Strategy team is examining a new set of indicators to gauge when a new market cycle may be ready to begin. ...

“Convince me why I shouldn’t buy junk bonds.” It wasn’t a challenge. My colleague Kyle was looking at some of the juicy yields on offer in high-yield bonds and was legitimately wondering why he shouldn’t load up his IRA with them. I’m not saying ...

As we roll through 2020, it is quite evident that we are all having an out of time, and space, and experience, moment. It is a medical crisis leading to a health crisis enlarging into an economic crisis and they are all three happening simultaneously. Each crisis founded upon the shoulders of ...

The credit market will be pivotal during the current crisis. In 2008, we had a problem in the credit market (Subprime mortgages), which made financial institutions move into credit tightening mode. Soon, that start cascading into the real economy. The current environment inverts that relation...

Everyone Wanting To Buy Suggests The Bear Still Prowls "If you own 10% equities, as we do, and the market falls 100%, you will lose 10%. That said, you have 90 cents on the dollar to buy equities for free." - Michael Lebowitz Let me explain his comment. Last week, we wrote a...

"We penetrated deeper and deeper into the Heart of Darkness" - Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness At the beginning of 2020 I said that the New Year would be nothing like the last year. Things are playing out as predicted, with Coronavirus thrown in for good measure, and with devastating co...

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