Managers make biggest move to bonds in over a decade

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15 December 2022
| By Laura Dew |
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The monthly Bank of America Global Fund Manager Survey has found a net 90% of respondents expected inflation would fall in the next 12 months.

Looking specifically at the US, they expected US CPI inflation would be 4.2% in the next 12 months which was down from its current rate of 7.1%.

While high inflation was still the largest tail risk to markets for the sixth consecutive month, it was cited by only 37% of respondents.

Allocations to bonds “surged” during the month, Bank of America said, with investors now at a 10% overweight, the first time they had held an overweight since April 2009. This was up 29 percentage points on November.

Just over a quarter (27%) said they expected government bonds to be the best-performing asset class of 2023, followed by equities at 25% and corporate bonds at 24%.

This allocation to bonds came at the expense of allocation to industrials, cash and energy.

Respondents took their cash levels to 5.9%, down from an ‘uber bearish’ rate of 6.2% in November, as risk sentiment started to ease. The long-term average for cash weightings was 4.8%.

Over 300 global fund managers were surveyed between 2-8 December with US$815 billion in assets under management.

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