Bullish outlook for 2026 – Janus Henderson head of multi-sector credit John Lloyd

“I come into the year extremely bullish about fixed income and credit in general,” says John Lloyd, global head of multi-sector credit at Janus Henderson, on the latest episode of Credit Exchange with Lisa Lee. The asset manager oversees nearly half a trillion dollars of AUM.

Lloyd speaks about how markets are shrugging off some recent big geopolitical events because they do not impact earnings today and are viewed as one-off events, bespoke to a single country. Instead, they are focused on positive GDP growth as well as the Fed, which will be a tailwind to investing, as the US central bank is now injecting liquidity back into markets.

Artificial intelligence is also a focus. The hyperscalers will increase their capex budgets because they are in a race over the next several years.

Google, Facebook, Oracle and others are all issuing a tremendous amount of debt to support that capex growth. “You are going to see a lot of supply increase this year from AI,” Lloyd says. “I think that’s going to be a little bit of a negative supply technical in the fixed income markets this year, especially in the investment grade space.”