Wellesley Asset Management announced it has been named to the celebrated PSN Top Guns List of best performing separate accounts, managed accounts, and managed ETF strategies for Q3 2022. The highly anticipated list…

Equity and fixed-income markets are off to one of their worst starts in history, as investors grapple with inflation running at 40-year highs, and seemingly accelerating monthly.

Convertible bonds and volatility go hand in hand given the optionality embedded in a convertible security. At times convertibles act more like stocks and at other times more like bonds. This paper explores that concept and the thesis that higher volatility as expressed by the VIX(1) has historically been a positive for convertible bond performance relative to the S&P 500 Index and a 60% equity/40% fixed income mix(2).

The first quarter of 2022 was painful for financial markets and heartbreaking for those watching the tragic events unfolding in Ukraine. The bond market massacre, beginning last year, accelerated with 10-year U.S. Treasury yields jumping to 2.32% from a low of 0.51% in early August 2020.

A high yield bond investor earns positive returns in three ways — clipping a coupon or current yield, an increase in value of the bond as holders enjoy the fruits of improved credit worthiness of an investment, or a fall in the general level of market interest rates.