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High Yield: Navigating COVID-19
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Barings’ Martin Horne puts the recent volatility in high yield markets into context and describes how the Barings team is both managing risks and finding value opportunities through the crisis.
Fixed Income Insights
Private Credit: Why Last Cycle's Playbook Won't Work This Time
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Barings’ Jon Bock discusses the recent Insights paper he authored, which describes the mistakes that investors continue to make when allocating to private credit—and, importantly, how to avoid them.
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Coronavirus and the Market: Our Take
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When unsettling events such as the coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak and recent market volatility dominate the news, it's natural for investors to second-guess financial plans. However, we believe in taking a measured approach and longer-term perspective, perhaps now more important to consider than ever. In our video, approved for general audiences, Chief Investment Officer Andrew Lill offers his market perspective and discusses how we believe our portfolios are positioned for success. Watch now (3:00 min.)
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[Webinar Replay] Behavioral Finance in Bear Markets
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Behavioral Finance in Bear Markets
Fixed Income Insights
Distressed Debt: Capturing Late-Cycle Value
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Barings’ Stuart Mathieson and Bryan High discuss how recent macro events and credit market dynamics are impacting the outlook for distressed debt.
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U.S. Election 2020: An Investors’ Guide
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With the early Iowa and New Hampshire contests behind us, what’s next in the race to the White House? Dr. Christopher Smart offers insight into how investors can tune out the noise and focus on the scenarios that are already coming into view.
Fixed Income Insights
Beyond the Index – IG Credit: The Hidden Risks of “Safe” Bond Strategies
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Traditional investment grade bond strategies are meant to help their owners sleep at night. But hidden credit and interest rate risks make benchmark-hugging more hazardous than many realize. Counterintuitively, CLOs, ABS and EM debt may be part of the solution.
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Beyond the Index – Private Credit: Where We’ve Been, Where We’re Going
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Industry veterans Ian Fowler and Adam Wheeler describe the dramatic evolution of private credit markets and explain why quality of earnings and varied definitions of ‘senior’ risk could be at the center of the next credit market storm.
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Streaming Income - Part 2: Barings' Risks, Opportunities & Predictions Podcast
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Where can investors find late-cycle value in fixed income? Are real estate investors being compensated for risks? In Part 2/2, we hear from Barings' leaders across high yield and investment grade credit, private credit, private equity and real estate.
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Streaming Income - Part 1: Barings' Risks, Opportunities & Predictions Podcast
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In Part 1 of our 2-part series, Barings' investment professionals touch on topics from politics to trade wars to economic growth—and offer their perspectives on why EM currencies, international equities and EM local debt might outperform in 2020.
Fixed Income Insights
Streaming Income - CLOs: Triple C's and Market Unease
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Taryn Leonard and Melissa Ricco, Co-Heads of Barings’ Structured Credit Investment Team, discuss the recent loan market weakness, and how technical pressures are creating value opportunities in the CLO market.