TREE NEWS reports: Vishal Khanduja of Morgan Stanley Investment Management has turned bullish on US Treasuries for the first time in ten years, as yields hit 20-year highs and begin to weigh on economic growth. Khanduja, who co-manages the $4.1 billion Eaton Vance Total Return Bond Fund with Brian Ellis, lifted the fund’s duration to 6.07 years as of June, above the 5.8-year benchmark duration of the Bloomberg US Aggregate Bond Index.
Morgan Stanley’s Khanduja Turns Bullish on US Bonds for First Time in a Decade
The significance lies in the reversal itself: a manager who avoided duration for a decade now sees elevated yields as compensation for growth risk, and positioning above the benchmark signals conviction rather than a tactical tweak. This matters for anyone benchmarked to the Agg, since active duration bets of this kind ripple through relative performance. The open question is whether yields have genuinely peaked or whether growth data will force another rethink.
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