Destra Insights

The third quarter 2024 update for the BlueBay Destra International Event-Driven Credit Fund (CEDIX). This webcast features an interview with Portfolio Manager Duncan Farley from BlueBay.

October is often a tough month for risk assets. Some of the stock market’s biggest sell offs in history have occurred in this first full month of fall in the northern hemisphere. Credit instruments often trade in sympathy with equities, if not in lock step occasionally. This October, bond prices generally fell like autumn leaves, as yields pushed up for a host of reasons.

September has historically been the cruelest month for stocks (on average) going back decades. And credit often plays sympathy to the devil of equities, especially on the downside. But this September saw stocks and credits soar in a devil may care, rally.