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Read Advent’s Statement on Diversity and Inclusion, written by President and Chief Investment Officer Tracy Maitland.

Advent explores how convertibles have provided downside protection in a volatile market period and analyzes their favorable valuation trends.

Advent healthcare analyst Doug Melancon, MD, explores the different tests available for COVID-19 to inform policy makers on when the economy can restart.

Advent Portfolio Manager, Tony Huang, highlights the benefits of investing in convertibles via a closed-end fund with Money Life Podcast host Chuck Jaffe.

Advent's President & CIO, Tracy Maitland, outlines the basics of convertible bonds with Barron's Penta and shows how they can be considered a core strategy.

Convertible bonds are not always included in optimization models. Investors shoud be giving them full consideration to benefit from their positive asymmetry.

Advent Capital Management’s Barry Nelson explains what a convertible security is and why convertibles are an attractive investment option.

This paper updates an earlier version published in September 2014. We have extended our data set and added analysis of returns by rating bands. Our conclusions remain the same.