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Emerging markets assets have endured a lot of punishment during 2021.

Shortly after publishing his annual Rodney Blog, TwentyFour CEO Mark Holman sat down with Tom Porter to discuss the biggest calls fixed income investors will have to make in 2022, and explain why he believes the current disconnect between monetary policy, the economy and the markets cannot last for long.

The TwentyFour Advent Calendar is a collection of 24 statistics that tell the story of 2021 in fixed income.

With floating rate assets likely to be high on investors’ shopping lists for 2022, Doug Charleston looks at the floating rate options across fixed income and highlights the highest yielding opportunities.

How do investors deal with inflation? Do central banks know what they’re doing? And does anyone know where Treasuries are heading? CEO Mark Holman tackles the bond market’s biggest questions as he looks ahead to 2022.

Fundamentally the outlook for 2022 appears less supportive than it was 12 months ago.

What we are currently experiencing is a disconnect between monetary policy, the economy and the markets, a disconnect that in our view will struggle to survive much longer.

With rising government bond yield curves one of the biggest concerns for fixed income fund managers going into 2022, Eoin Walsh points to interest rate swaps as one option for reducing the rates risk of a portfolio without impacting its credit exposure.

This week the team at TwentyFour have been busy compiling our 2022 fixed income outlook, which will be published next week. There is no doubt we are confronted with a challenging set of circumstances, which will provide investors – not just in fixed income – with headwinds in the year ahead, and in particular we think during the first half.

In fixed income today there are three market forces becoming ever more prominent.

With environmental and social factors rightly growing in prominence in the field of ESG, TwentyFour portfolio manager Chris Bowie explains why governance should still matter to bond investors

Eoin Walsh explains how bond investors can use the three dimensions of credit – amount, quality, duration – to help maximise or protect returns through different stages of the economic cycle.