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White papersFocus on the broader EM opportunity – not just the tech titans
Emerging market equities have staged a powerful comeback, led by AI-related companies in Korea and Taiwan. However, the bigger long-term EM opportunity favors a systematic, broad-universe approach.
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White papersSystematic fixed income: Bringing diversification benefits to credit portfolios
Systematic credit is still a small part of fixed income, but its portfolio role is growing. For credit allocators, it can offer a disciplined and differentiated source of diversification.
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White papersHarvesting the Valuation Gap: The Strategic Role of Crossover Equity
Promising companies are choosing to fund their explosive growth in the private markets, creating a potentially attractive arbitrage for experienced “crossover equity” investors.
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White papersEmerging markets: One index, different destinies
For three decades, allocators have bought emerging markets on a narrative: faster growth, better demographics, and deeper integration into world trade. It was a convenient story, and it built a large asset class. However, treating EM as a monolith disguises the complexity inherent in investing in such a diverse universe and, in our view, limits your performance potential.
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White papersAgentic AI and alpha: Where the AI edge really lies
As access to powerful AI models becomes increasingly commoditized, the differentiator for asset managers is shifting from the model itself to the investment workflow built around it. Models can be licensed; workflows must be designed, refined and governed. This marks an important evolution in how artificial intelligence contributes to investment research and portfolio construction.
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White papersCapital Market Line: From Inflation Shock to Productivity Shock
Markets have navigated a series of inflationary shocks over the past few years, including Covid, tariffs, and geopolitical tensions, including most recently the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. While disagreements linger between the U.S. and Iran, neither has shown the appetite for full-fledged war.
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PodcastA New Growth Plane for Japanese Equities
Japanese equities have undergone one of the most significant re-ratings in the developed world — but the story is evolving. The early phase was about leaner balance sheets and better capital management.
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White papersSo, Why Don’t You Own It? Understanding Underweights in Equity Investing
Concentrated markets demand active choices about which risks to avoid.
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White papersFour market insights we shared with US Congress
Opportunities to speak before Congress are rare. So, when US lawmakers invited Capital Group Vice Chair Jody Jonsson to share her perspective on aligning public policy with shifting market conditions, she welcomed the chance.
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White papersAgentic AI for Financial Applications: A Comprehensive Survey
Language models have given rise to agentic AI: autonomous systems that pursue high-level goals through tool use, orchestration, and adaptation. Although prior surveys treat financial applications, agent architectures, and fine-tuning methods in isolation, this review integrates the full agentic stack.
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White papersHigh Yield Has Changed. Have Perceptions Kept Up?
Welcome to this month’s edition of Where Credit is Due—a newsletter from Barings recognizing value across the people and portfolios shaping credit markets today.
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White papersHiring a Systematic Bond Manager? Seven Questions for Candidates
Systematic bond investing needs specialist skills and resources. Has your manager got what it takes?
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White papersCutting through the noise: Why lower and core middle market direct lending still delivers value in clients’ portfolios
Private credit has become one of the most discussed corners of institutional investing — and one of the most misunderstood. Daily headlines about troubled borrowers, struggling business development companies (BDCs), redemption pressure, and concentrated software exposure have created the impression of a market under stress. But beneath the noise, the lower and core middle market direct lending segment that has historically powered investor outcomes is performing well, behaving as designed, and, in our view, is about to deliver one of its most attractive vintages in years.
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White papersThe New Role of Geopolitical Risk in Bond Investing
Interest rate volatility is reshaping bond markets. We examine why geopolitical risks have become increasingly linked to bond market volatility since 2025, and discuss the implications for the term premium, fixed income positioning and investment opportunities.
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White papersHigh Yield Holding Firm as Opportunities Evolve
High yield bonds and loans remain well supported by resilient fundamentals and strong demand, with attractive all-in yields continuing to drive investor interest even as spreads remain tight.
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VideoCase video: Child-Lens Investing in practice
Child-Lens Investing recognises children as key stakeholders in financial decision-making and strives for positive investment outcomes for children. But what does this mean in practice?
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White papersPassive in Name Only: The Active Bet Within Your Equity Index
Broad-market benchmarks have gone all in on the AI theme. Do equity investors really want to make that bet?
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White papersPrivate Equity: Distributions Are Bouncing Back
Global private equity exits are on track for yet another robust year, potentially extending the year-on-year recovery in divestment activity and investor distributions since 2024. While sales to strategic or corporate buyers and sponsor to sponsor deals continue to dominate…
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White papersAI and Alpha: Why Technology Alone Won’t Be Enough
AI may be the next big alpha engine—but access alone won’t create a lasting edge.
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White papersFour charts that expose market concentration risk
Since ChatGPT launched in 2022, some AI-related stocks have soared to record highs despite elevated inflation, sweeping tariffs and war in the Middle East. A small group of companies now make up an outsized share of the US market, pushing concentration to levels not seen in decades.
