The Nordic Brief
Azhar Hussain, Head of Global Credit at Royal London Asset Management, gives his views on where the high yield markets are heading in 2023 and how the story will be all about the recession and the shape of the default cycle.....
We sat down with Søren Nielsen and Jan Willard to talk about a challenging past year where the team still managed to outperform their benchmark thanks to tactical allocations and strategic, bottom-up selection of illiquid strategies.......
Tuomo Hietaniemi and Antti Kortela, Portfolio Managers, Private Debt Funds, gives us an in-depth look into a well diversified portfolio of direct lending, specialty finance, asset backed lending and special situations strategies as well as strategies and allocations going forward....
Over the past year we have interviewed allocators who specialise in alternative and private credit across the Nordics. This report highlights how Nordic investors and allocators are adapting to a new environment of raising rates, sticky inflation and possible recession and how it is effecting their strategies and allocations to alternative credit......
Yolanda Courtines, Equity Portfolio Manager at Wellington, argues that strong relationships with companies, formed through regular engagement, allows asset managers to help companies navigate the increasingly demanding list of risks that management teams and boards are facing.....
Thor Abrahamsen, Senior Investment Risk Analyst, spoke to us about new and growing allocations to private credit managers and some changes on the liquid credit side. On a new reality of higher inflation and interest rates, he notes that investing just got interesting again........
Head of Asset Management, Jonas Thulin, called a trough in equities in June 2022 and turned bullish. Now he is looking forward to less uncertain markets in 2023, with lower inflation and interest rates boosting risk assets.... ........
In some credit sub-asset classes, such as US high yield, many pure passive products and active managers have historically lagged the leading benchmarks used by institutions. A happier medium could be an efficient beta approach with tight tracking and a fundamental factor tilt mitigating some biases that can hamper long-term returns.....
We interviewed Jani Partanen, Chief Investment Officer & CFO at Pohjantähti, to hear about the Finnish insurers strategies and allocations to alternative and private credit.....
Pinebridge Head of Credit and Global Fixed Income, Steven Oh, argues that valuation cracks will develop in the months ahead, and he is looking to move from defensive to offensive when opportunities emerge.......
