FILS USA 2026: Assessing active management’s advantages
Fixed income investors who default to passive strategies are missing structural return advantages of active management, said Jonathan Murrell, senior portfolio manager at Bank...
FILS USA 2026: US economic strength underpins macro outlook
The strength of the US economy is a prevailing macro theme, and while there are concerns about growth being derailed, the near-term outlook remains...
FILS USA 2026: Separately managed accounts to evolve into multi-asset wrappers
Separately managed accounts are no longer a niche product for the ultra-wealthy. Across the fixed income market, practitioners are watching the structure evolve from...
FILS USA 2026: Macro outlook mostly clear but clouds on horizon
Fixed income investors are navigating a changed landscape compared with years ago; bonds remain a vital portfolio component, though new risks have emerged.
That was...
BlackRock’s Xiao: “Challenge every preconceived notion of what is possible”
Speaking in conversation with a Troy Dixon, co-head of global markets at Tradeweb at the Fixed Income Leaders’ Summit USA 2026, Jenny Xiao, global...
FILS USA 2026: Liquidity in bits
It is helpful for fixed income market participants to have their current range of choices in trading protocols and execution venues, but that optionality...
FILS USA 2026: BondGPT gains agentic capabilities
LTX has introduced agentic AI into BondGPT, its generative AI application for corporate bonds.
Agents on the platform can conduct pre-trade practices such as monitoring...
FILS USA 2026: We are changing the way we build technology
For much of the past decade, the conversation about technology in fixed income trading centred on which vendor to select and how long integration...
FILS USA 2026: Data gets refined
Data has long been described as the new oil. At the Fixed Income Leaders Summit, the conversation had moved on: the question is no...
FILS USA 2026: The biggest obstacle to improving your trading workflow
The trading desk of the future will look very different to its predecessor — and the transformation is already under way. At the Fixed...
