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中文标题
固定收益如何（仍能）提供迎风锚
Core conclusion · Tlines extraction
State Street argues that fixed income can still anchor portfolios despite bear flattening in government bonds, investment-grade and high-yield spreads at multi-decade tights, and stock/bond correlation at its highest in decades. It proposes using systematic active fixed income, private credit, TIPS, emerging-market debt (with a roughly 244 bps spread cushion), and leveraged loans as diversifiers. The piece cites upward yield pressure from a more hawkish Fed, hyperscaler debt supply, and a rising term premium, framing these as risks rather than certainties.
- Institution
- State Street
- Published
- 09/17/2026
- Research topic
- Inflation · US 10Y Treasury
- Time horizon
- 2026
Key arguments
- Government bonds have shown volatility and bear flattening, and stock/bond correlation has reached its highest level in decades, challenging the traditional hedge role.
- Investment-grade and high-yield spreads remain near multi-decade tights, limiting traditional spread-based return potential.
- Systematic active fixed income has produced low correlations to fundamental active managers, offering diversification potential.
- Blending public debt with high-quality private credit, TIPS, emerging-market debt and leveraged loans may preserve fixed income's stabilizer role.
Key numbers
- EMD spread cushion
- approximately 244 bps
- Leveraged loan correlation to Bloomberg US Aggregate
- 0.15
- Systematic vs fundamental active correlation (mean)
- 0.00 to 0.31
- EMD issuer diversification
- nearly 70 issuers
Main risks
- A more hawkish Fed with less forward guidance could make markets react strongly to macro data, pushing yields across the curve upward.
- Hyperscaler capex plans have turned to debt markets, adding significant investment-grade supply to absorb.
- Rising term premium, driven by inflation concerns and fiscal deficits, is a long-term trend that could pressure bond returns.
Corresponding source evidence
However, correlations between fundamental fixed income managers can be high, as they can use similar tilts toward higher-beta credits to generate alpha and may react similarly to macro events (Figure 3).
returns may have low correlations with each other, providing the potential to enhance diversification in the overall fixed income allocation (Figure 3).
Real yields have increased over the course of 2026 while breakevens followed a bumpy path to roughly unchanged year to date (Figure 4), indicating markets are more focused on growth than inflation.
· 2026
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