Bethany Payne, CFA

Bethany Payne is a Global Bonds Portfolio Manager on Global Bonds at Janus Henderson Investors, a position she has held since 2011. Bethany joined Henderson in 2006 as an assistant portfolio manager on hedge funds. She later assumed the role of quantitative analyst before moving into her current role as portfolio manager.
Bethany received a BSc degree (Hons) in economics from the University of Sheffield. She holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and has 16 years of financial industry experience.
Articles Written

The UK’s dovish turn: The £ gets pounded
The Bank of England’s May meeting has stoked recession and stagflation risks, and a more measured approach to tightening.
Sovereign debt levels hit new records in 2021
Janus Henderson’s Sovereign Debt Index shows that global government debt jumped to US$65.4 trillion in 2021.

Flattening is not flattering
The recent flattening of yield curves is incongruous to the beginning of a hiking cycle. The Global Bonds team examines the drivers of these dynamics and the team’s expectations for 2022.

Too fast, too furious: how far can the Bank of England afford to hike?
Global Bonds Portfolio Manager Bethany Payne challenges whether the Bank of England can really deliver the interest rate hikes currently priced in by the market.
Global government debt soared in 2020 amid fight against COVID
Global government debt soared in 2020 amid fight against COVID — a video promoting the recently released Janus Henderson Sovereign Debt Index, is now available to view.

Developments in the gilt market — RPI and green gilts
Andrew Mulliner, Portfolio Manager and Head of Global Aggregate Strategies and Bethany Payne, Portfolio Manager, outline the implications of the announcements by the UK government in November 2020, that RPI will be aligned with CPIH from February 2030 and green gilts are to be issued from this year.