Brian Luke is Global Head of Fixed Income Indices at S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI). With over 15 years of fixed income experience, Brian leads S&P DJI’s global fixed income indices, including the S&P Municipal Bond, Global Bond, Global Leveraged Loan, and Global Bond Futures Indices. These index series cover key benchmarks for the fixed income market such as the S&P National AMT-Free Municipal Bond Index, the S&P/LSTA U.S. Leveraged Loan 100 Index, the S&P 500® Bond Index, the Dow Jones Sukuk Total Return Index, and the S&P Green Bond Index.
Previously, Brian headed S&P DJI’s index construction, development, and implementation for fixed income, commodities, and alternative indices. Before joining S&P DJI, Brian led the U.S. fixed income trading desk for Maybank Global Markets, where he managed the bank’s U.S. dollar fixed income portfolio. Prior to that, he worked at Pacific Income Advisers, where he traded and managed active and passive portfolios for institutional and retail investors. As a fixed income specialist, Brian has presented on Bloomberg TV, covering headline events and investment strategies within the fixed income markets.
Brian is a CFA charterholder and holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration with a concentration in finance from the University of Washington. In his spare time, Brian enjoys skiing and traveling, having logged over 30 ski resorts and visited over 40 countries, and he holds U.S. and EU passports.Equity markets have fared reasonably well aided by liquidity in ETFs, as my colleague Craig Lazzara highlights. Steep discounts to net asset values (NAVs) on popular fixed income ETFs are bringing an onslaught of doomsday projections. But while the signs of stress are evident, it’s important to decouple the dysfunction of the bond market from Read more […]
For those wondering what role fixed income would have in their portfolio at record-low yields, they had to wait just one week. On Friday, Feb. 21, 2020, we hit a record-low yield for the 30-year Treasury, as the S&P U.S. Treasury Bond Current 30-Year Index yield fell to 1.92%. The next week, the Dow Jones Read more […]
Thanks to the clever ad campaign by Policygenius, riders of the NYC subway have been reminded that we were promised glass-domed houses, flying cars, and vacation homes in outer space by 2020. Although robot maids may have come true via Amazon’s Alexa, they definitely fall short of the robot maid Rosie from the cartoon The Read more […]
Rarely do we see all segments of the market go up in unison, but 2019 saw broad-based gains across stocks, bonds, and commodities. In fact, not a single sovereign bond index we track ended in the red. Considering 42 central banks cut policy rates in 2019, this may have been expected, but we would have Read more […]
One of the classic scenes from the original Top Gun movie recounts the exchange Maverick (Tom Cruise) had with a MiG-28. Maverick corrects Charlie’s (Kelly McGillis) intelligence report on the Russian fighter jet with his eyewitness account. When she asks how he saw a MiG-28 perform a 4G dive from above, he responds: “Because I Read more […]