Confidence in corporate bonds playing down the slowdown

Investment Week features editor Joanna Faith talks with Rathbones' Bryn Jones and F&C's Adam Mossakowski about sector sentiment and the state of global currencies

In the second part of a Conjecture on corporate bonds (the first part of which appeared in last week’s issue), Joanna Faith talks to Bryn Jones, manager of the Rathbone Ethical Bond fund, and Adam Mossakowski, fund manager of the Strategic Bond and Extra Income funds at F&C. What types of corporate bonds are best suited to the current environment? Bryn Jones (BJ): I think this really depends on your view on inflation. If you think we are going to have a period of five years of deflation, then clearly long-dated low-risk assets will be the best performers. If you are in the other ca...