Rising government supply, shifting central bank policies and geopolitical tensions are reshaping sovereign bond markets and testing traditional diversification assumptions. Duration exposure, currency positioning and liquidity buffers are increasingly sensitive to political and fiscal developments.

This session will explore how investment teams are adjusting sovereign allocation, refining duration strategy and strengthening scenario analysis to improve resilience against fiscal pressure and geopolitical disruption.

This session offers a detailed walkthrough of how senior investors move from macroeconomic views and market analysis to portfolio construction, risk management and trading decisions. Speakers will explore how investment convictions are formed, challenged and implemented, how information flows between analysts, traders and portfolio managers, and how portfolios are adjusted in response to changing market conditions. Alongside examining the broader investment process, speakers will also provide a behind-the-scenes look at a typical day, highlighting the routines, interactions and decision points that shape investment strategies in practice.

The AI boom is driving unprecedented levels of borrowing from technology companies, data centre operators and the broader infrastructure ecosystem supporting AI deployment. While investors remain attracted to the growth story, the scale of issuance raises important questions for fixed income markets around concentration risk, credit quality, capital allocation and whether spreads adequately compensate for the risks associated with long-term investment programmes. This discussion will explore how corporate credit investors are assessing opportunities and risks across the AI value chain, where they are finding relative value, and how they are positioning portfolios as AI-related investment becomes an increasingly significant driver of credit market performance.