{"id":10971,"date":"2009-07-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"threadneedle-stays-defensive-in-high-yield-bonds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2009\/threadneedle-stays-defensive-in-high-yield-bonds.html","title":{"rendered":"Threadneedle stays defensive in high yield bonds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Threadneedle is staying defensive in its high yield bond fund, despite the spring rally in the sector, betting that weak growth will hinder over-leveraged companies over the next few years, impacting the default rate.       <\/p>\n<p>&quot;The focus should be on company fundamentals now,&quot; said Barrie Whitman, head of high yield at Threadneedle. &quot;We think growth will be anaemic for the foreseeable future, which does a lot of damage to over-leveraged companies.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/reuters\/UKFundsNews\/~4\/uxZFk8rCCKg\" \/><br \/>  <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/idUKLNE56601620090707\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Read Complete Article\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Threadneedle is staying defensive in its high yield bond fund, despite the spring rally in the sector, betting that weak growth will hinder over-leveraged companies over the next few years, impacting the default rate. &quot;The focus should be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[13873,13871,782,8734,13869,13868,4326,13870,13872,13874],"class_list":["post-10971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-barrie","tag-company-fundamentals","tag-default-rate","tag-foreseeable-future","tag-high-yield-bond","tag-high-yield-bond-fund","tag-reuters","tag-spring-rally","tag-threadneedle","tag-whitman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}