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Bond returns are back and Pimco is ‘excited’

Bond returns are back and Pimco is ‘excited’

The $2.9 trillion fund manager is buying up Australian government bonds, among other things, betting that the RBA will need to cut rates less than the Fed. They are also wagering on the US housing market and consumer.

Cecile LefortMarkets reporter

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Dan Ivascyn, the investment chief of one of the world’s biggest bond managers, is excited.

After 2023 turned out to be a bit of a damp squib for fixed-income investors as central banks kept raising rates to tame sticky inflation, this year Ivascyn, who helps oversee $US1.9 trillion ($2.9 trillion) in assets for Pimco, is more confident.

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Cecile LefortMarkets reporterCecile Lefort is a markets reporter based in the Sydney newsroom. Email Cecile at cecile.lefort@afr.com

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