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Streaming Income - Assessing Today’s Private Credit Landscape
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Private credit markets have seen an exponential increase in investor demand over the last 10 years. But with competition fierce and the cycle maturing, what’s next? Barings’ Eric Lloyd talks about where he sees value today and how risks from Brexit to rate hikes are impacting the asset class.
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Streaming Income - CLOs & Leveraged Loans: Perception vs. Reality
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Leveraged loans and collateralized loan obligations (CLOs) are back in the headlines with the market’s recent bout of volatility. How prepared are these credit instruments to weather the next economic storm? Barings’ Matthew Natcharian and Adrienne Butler weigh in.
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Streaming Income - Investment Grade Credit: Rates, BBBs and ABS
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IG investors today are grappling with mixed signals from the yield curve, a bulging BBB-rated universe and the continued expansion of ABS markets. David Nagle, a 30+ year veteran of fixed income markets helps to put today’s most recent developments in perspective.
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Streaming Income - Climbing High Yield’s Wall of Worry
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Global high yield markets face a number of risks, from trade wars to rising rates. Yet, these markets have continued to scale such a ‘wall of worry’ for the last decade. Should we expect more of the same, or are we nearing a turning point in the cycle?
Active/Passive Management
The Active Equity Renaissance: Behavioral Financial Markets
The analytical tools derived from behavioral finance’s more realistic representation of financial markets and human behavior will likely replace the wealth-limiting MPT tools in use today.
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The Active Equity Renaissance: New Frontiers of Risk
One modern portfolio theory (MPT) pillar that is unquestionably broken is the use of volatility, specifically standard deviation, as a measure of risk.
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The Active Equity Renaissance: The Rise and Fall of MPT
After the dust settles, virtually nothing of modern portfolio theory (MPT) will remain, asserts C. Thomas Howard and Jason Voss, CFA.
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The Active Equity Renaissance: Rejecting a Broken 1970's Model
If enough mandates are added, a potential positive alpha is transformed into an actual negative alpha. So what can be done to launch an active equity renaissance?
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The Active Equity Renaissance: Understanding the Cult of Emotion
“I know you are afraid and you should be afraid. I will invest you in products that will not stir up your fears.” This sentiment is applied over and over in the investment industry.