2025 Top 500 ranking: 69
Barings is a $481 billion* global alternative asset manager that partners with institutional, insurance, and wealth clients, and supports leading businesses with flexible financing solutions. The firm, a subsidiary of MassMutual, seeks to deliver excess returns by leveraging its global scale and capabilities across credit, real assets and capital solutions.
*As of March 31, 2026
Scalable energy and power platforms are emerging as highly attractive opportunities. These assets combine the core characteristics institutional investors value with speed, flexibility and resilience needed to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving energy landscape.
Capital solutions has evolved far beyond its origins in distressed debt. Today, it functions as a form of “direct lending plus”—pairing tailored outcomes for borrowers with the potential for strong, cash-yielding returns for investors.
Bryan High joins the Streaming Income podcast to help put recent private credit headlines and market volatility into perspective
Private markets have entered a phase shaped not only by secular shifts, but also by heightened geopolitical uncertainty and growing scrutiny around risk.
In a recent Q&A with Infrastructure Investor, Richard Parker discusses how rising digital and energy demand is shaping risks and opportunities across global infrastructure debt markets.
Welcome back to Where Credit is Due, a monthly newsletter by Barings recognizing value across the people and portfolios shaping credit markets today.
IPE’s 2025 institutional high yield market survey charts an 8.5% drop in high yield managed assets within the European institutional client segment.
Plus: Fidelity International appoints new trustee for master trust; Abrdn makes changes to multi-asset and alternatives leadership team
Plus: Ortec Finance expands board; Swedish Fund Selection Agency adds to strategy and business development team
Asset managers in our listing are ranked by global assets under management and by the country of the main headquarters. Assets managed by these groups total €111.4trn (2023: €102.6trn)
Martin Horne is the new global head of public assets at Barings bond investor, but he is a bond guy through and through.
When the global financial crisis wreaked havoc across the banking sector, private credit emerged as a potential winner.
Private debt in Europe is still feeling the impact of the war in Ukraine and the surge in inflation, but there are reasons for optimism
Pension fund managers reflect on an extremely challenging year for markets and look to the future, considering questions such as what is risk-free, how to secure inflation-linked assets, the role of central banks and the risk of liquidity crises
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