US corporate bonds likely to fare nowhere near as well this year

Even if a hunt for yield drives the credit spreads of US corporate bonds through their post-Global-Financial-Crisis (GFC) lows, the returns from these assets – and by extension US equities – are likely to be much smaller in 2020 than they were in 2019.

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