All Credit articles
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White papersEuro credit: Investment potential amid global uncertainty
Credit markets entered 2026 on a solid footing, but the landscape has since shifted significantly. What began as a year of macro optimism was tested by two successive shocks: AI-driven disruptions to private credit, and latterly, the Middle East conflict which reignited stagflation fears. However, despite this backdrop, the asset class has demonstrated notable resilience.
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White papersIlliquidity premia in private debt: Q1 2026
In our Q1 2026 deep dive, our research team crunched the data to explore how evolving macro conditions are reflected in private debt returns
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VideoHow does our trade finance process work?
In this video, Jingjing Pan, Senior Investment Analyst, outlines how credit quality, disciplined structuring and diversification can support resilient, risk-adjusted returns.
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White papersScale matters: navigating EM oil credit in volatile markets
Spiking high oil prices create regional winners and losers.
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White papersQ1 2026 Investment Grade Corporate Market Review and Outlook
MetLife Investment Management’s “Q1 2026 Investment Grade Corporate Market Review and Outlook” highlights a volatile start to the year driven by policy shifts, geopolitical tensions and elevated issuance. Despite increased uncertainty, credit markets remained resilient as higher yields continued to support investor demand.
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White papersFundamentals First: The Case for Broadening Out
We believe an improving corporate fundamentals picture across the entire market-cap spectrum can support the broadening out trade; the median stock in the Russell 3000 Index has now posted eight consecutive quarters of improving EPS growth, climbing from a sub -10% trough in 4Q’23 to over +20% in 1Q’26.
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White papersValue-add real estate and the speed of forgetting
The built environment is having to adapt more quickly than it once did. Technology, tighter regulation and higher capital costs have shortened the lifespan of established property formats. Noura Tan, together with Robert Balick and Frédéric Laurent, Managing Partners at BauMont Real Estate Capital, M&G’s European value-add real estate business, examine how value-add investing is being redefined as cycles shorten and why building portfolios around more than one market story is becoming increasingly important.
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White papersDeglobalisation: Downing the desire for duration
In the latest Fixed on Bonds blog, Premier Miton Fund Manager Simon Prior looks at why fragmenting supply chains can reduce economies of scale and add to cost pressures over time, ultimately feeding through to consumers.
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PodcastOuterblue Talks Research - Adapting to Ruptures - Diversification is the Key to this New Era
Long-term investing looks very different in a world defined by ruptures, from geopolitical fragmentation and strategic competition to artificial intelligence, demographic change and shifting currency dynamics. In this episode of Outerblue Talks Research, host Swaha Pattanaik speaks with Monica Defend, Head of the Amundi Investment Institute, and John O’Toole, Global Head and CIO of Solutions, about Amundi’s latest Capital Markets Assumptions (CMA) report and what it means for investors over the years ahead.
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VideoMike Freno on Bloomberg TV
Chairman and CEO Mike Freno joined Bloomberg’s Romaine Bostick and Katie Greifeld at the Milken Institute Global Conference for a discussion on market volatility, private credit and how Barings is positioned as client needs continue to evolve.
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White papersInfrastructure Debt: A Compelling Private Credit Portfolio Addition
Updating existing infrastructure and building new assets to accommodate increased mobility, digitalization and the continued transition to new and cleaner sources of energy will require $106 trillion in funding by 2040, according to McKinsey estimates. With government budgets stressed, private capital — including debt capital—will be necessary to meet this goal.
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White papersLong-term asset allocation – A resilient world
For all the shocks following the inauguration of Donald Trump as US president, the word most often used when discussing the economic outlook has been ‘resilience’. Neither US tariffs nor war have been able to derail global growth. Forecasts by the International Monetary Fund for economic growth over the next five years are largely unchanged.
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White papersFive Timely Opportunities in Today’s High-Yield Market
As market conditions shift, opportunities stand out.
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VideoPrivate Credit: From Niche Holding to Portfolio Pillar
Private credit’s been on quite a journey over the past 15 to 20 years. If I look back around on the GFC, it was really a niche asset class. You fast forward to today, it has gone from a niche allocation in investor portfolios to a core part of their portfolio.
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White papersQ1 2026 Private Credit Quarterly Review and Outlook
In our latest quarterly review and outlook, MetLife Investment Management explores how private credit markets delivered resilient performance amid a more volatile macro environment, with stable spreads, strong origination activity and continued investor demand for high-quality, well-structured assets.
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White papersEM debt: reading the shock and finding opportunities
Emerging markets debt performance is ultimately driven by a combination of global and domestic forces. Global and domestic conditions set the backdrop against which capital flows, borrowing costs, and currency dynamics are determined, while domestic policy credibility and market structure decide whether countries can absorb external shocks or amplify them.
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White papersPrivate Credit and BDCs: Why the Sell-Off Tells an Incomplete Story
We believe the private credit market is much more diverse—and resilient—than the recent focus on corporate direct lending and BDCs would suggest.
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White papersTalking Markets – Inflation, central bank policy and the changing shape of bond market
Inflation isn’t fading into the background, it’s redefining how investors think about fixed income.
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White papersLending standards hold steady, with early easing at large banks
The Federal Reserve’s newly released Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey for April reinforces our view that the CRE lending environment is stable and, in fact, selectively easing, even amid a more volatile macro backdrop. While the headline result points to largely unchanged lending standards, the underlying detail tells a more constructive story.
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White papersNavigating AI in Credit: How to Find the Winners in Tech
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.
