A year is a long time for major changes to occur in corporate bond sector

This week's panel discuss the future of corporate bonds going into 2010

Corporate bonds were the must-have investment of 2009 leading the IMA sales charts for much of the year. However, many believe the bond market has reached saturation and value is increasingly difficult to find. Kate Hollis, analyst at S&P, Rebecca Seabrook, manager of F&C Ethical Bond and co-manager of the F&C Strategic Bond fund, and John Hampton, manager the LV= UK Corporate Bond fund, discuss the issues. Are corporate bonds still attractive? Kate Hollis (KH): Not as obviously attractive as they were this time a year ago, when they were cheap as chips and everybody knew it. Then ...