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White papersA new perspective: Diversified private debt portfolios for insurers
Private debt offers a broad and diverse investment universe that is often well-suited to an insurer’s balance sheet. However, approaches that focus on certain sub-types of private debt could create barriers to effective investment over time and inadvertently narrow the opportunity set.
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Podcast
The Investment Podcast: The democratisation of private assets
Private assets have been steadily growing in popularity in recent years, with estimates that global alternative assets under management will have grown from 10 trillion dollars at the end of 2020, to 17 trillion dollars by 2025.
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Podcast
The Investment Podcast: Inflation - is it real?
From the ‘Great Moderation’ of the 1980’s, to the current day, the inflation environment has been relatively benign, with the policies of recent years mostly concerned with preventing deflation. However, as economies begin to rebound from the Covid crisis, inflation has ticked up. Is the current rise in inflation transitory, or could we see Central banks move to tighten policy?
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The Investment Podcast: Sustainability in private credit – can the two go hand in hand?
While sustainability has been most obviously implemented within public markets, appetite from investors to access private market opportunities has grown.
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Private credit markets - opportunities opening up across the spectrum
With countries around the world rolling out their vaccine programmes and with growing optimism about the outlook for the global economy, has a potential return to normality been reflected in private and illiquid credit?
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Sustainability-linked LBO loans - fad or future?
The ‘green’ finance revolution shows no signs of slowing down, with sustainable debt issuance continuing to set new records.
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Cash dethroned: reallocation opportunities for insurers under Solvency II
Insurers continue to grapple with historically low cash rates and potentially high capital charges on some defensive assets under Solvency II.
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Podcast
The Investment Podcast: The folly of forecasting – finding value in an uncertain world
There has been significant positive momentum in credit markets since the Covid crisis began, underpinned by unprecedented levels of government and central bank support. However, despite market expectations of a sharp rebound in economic activity, there remain significant risks to this view.
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European credit outlook 2021: a world of uncertainty
European credit markets appear to have stabilised, as investors increasingly price in a perfect economic recovery alongside continuing monetary and fiscal support.
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The Investment Podcast: Investment in music copyrights? Now, that’s music to my ears
How do we find a private special situations investment? What kind of work do we do before making such an investment? What is our role once the initial investment is completed?
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Spotlight on credit: Reflation - The end of inflation’s “great moderation”?
Credit markets may face challenges if reflationary policies stimulate a concerted return for inflation.
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Private credit markets – optimism grows, but caution is warranted
Activity levels in many private credit markets have unsurprisingly picked up over recent quarters as public markets bounced back, adding to the robust and growing pipeline of opportunities we are seeing across the breadth of the asset universe.
