Finding Value as the Momentum Fades
With fundamentals shifting, is 2019 seeing the return to value trades in global credit markets?
Credit Market Outlook: Selection and Name-Picking Key
We asked Aperture Investors’ Chief CIO, Simon Thorp, where he is looking for long and short ideas in liquid corporate credit markets....
Timing Allocations to Emerging Market Credit
While Emerging Markets is an asset class that can have bouts of volatility, it is difficult for investors to ignore given its diversification benefits, attractive valuations and the fact that about 70% of global economic growth emanates from it...
Credit and ESG Investing
The application of ESG to credit investing is rapidly evolving, and is, thus far, most well-developed in relation to investment grade corporate credit....
Asian credit: could 2019 match 2009 and 1999 vintages?
"Asian credit now offers one of the three most compelling environments I have seen over my thirty-year career..." says Clearwater Capitals co-founder Rob Petty
Global Growth Slows, With Trade Wars Biggest Risk
What lies ahead; State Street Global Advisors is first out to give their view on what investors can expect, and what they should be looking out for, in 2019....
Short Duration Credit – A Defensive, Late Cycle Strategy
Credit spreads have widened out in 2018, which has been the worst year since 2008 for some parts of the credit markets. Is it still possible to construct a defensive strategy through careful rules and credit selection?
The Green Bonds market
For the first five years, issuance of green bonds was measured in single digit billions, but has recently accelerated to USD 155 billion in 2017, and a forecast USD 250 billion in 2018....
Infrastructure debt in a portfolio context – A first exploration
We explore the added value of infrastructure debt in a portfolio context. Does it have an attractive risk-return trade-off and can it offer diversification potential in a fixed income portfolio of a pension fund or insurance company?
Trade War Rhetoric and Reality
Could Asian credit prove to be resilient? Christina Bastin, offers a cold, hard and dispassionate perspective on the trade war, and its implications for investors...