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Five core bond portfolio themes for 2025
Pramod Atluri
Fixed Income Portfolio Manager

As we navigate a new era of fiscal dominance, the bond market is poised for a very different 2025 compared to years past.


For a long time, fixed income investors have viewed central banks as a primary driver of markets — whether it was the ultra-low rates of the 2010s aimed at boosting economic growth and combating persistently low inflation, crisis interventions to stabilise markets and the economy during the Covid-19 pandemic, or the subsequent moves to raise interest rates in response to soaring inflation.


Overall, central bank actions and their forward-looking guidance have been front and centre as a leading indicator for economic growth, inflation and ultimately markets.


Instead of being a principal driver of markets, Fixed Income Portfolio Manager Pramod Atluri sees the US Federal Reserve (Fed) taking a back seat and responding to events after they occur. He believes investors will likely hear the Fed maintain a refrain of ‘data dependence’ and ‘economic uncertainty’ and a ‘meeting-by-meeting’ approach. With US economic growth expected to remain above 2% and inflation back within range of the Fed’s 2% target, the Bank can afford to take a more patient approach.


As the Fed’s stance becomes less influential, he expects markets to be taking their cues from the other dominant macro force: governments. Fiscal spending and policies — on everything from trade and immigration to taxes and regulation — are all highly important to the future path of growth and inflation. With US policies in flux, Atluri says market volatility will remain elevated, leading to both higher risk and greater opportunity for investors and active managers that can successfully navigate this period of fiscal dominance.


Against this backdrop, we outline five themes expected to drive core bond portfolios in 2025.



Pramod Atluri is a fixed income portfolio manager at Capital Group. He has 21 years of investment industry experience and has been with Capital Group for nine years. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a bachelor's degree in biological chemistry from the University of Chicago, where he also completed the requirements for bachelor's degrees in economics and chemistry. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation. Pramod is based in Los Angeles.


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