All Emerging Market Debt articles – Page 20
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Thematics Views - The Eurozone’s Quantum Leap: On The Road To Debt Mutualisation
The Eurozone’s architecture does not allow it to contain all the risks arising from the current shock. Recourse to an European Stability Mechanism (ESM) credit line without strong conditionality is a de facto first step towards debt mutualisation. Looking ahead, this could pave the way to a European budget and a common debt.
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Central Banks Are Entering A New Regime: Unlimited Support
Coordinated actions by central banks and governments have a clear objective to prevent a sharp rise in bankruptcies. We are confident in central banks’ ability to address the liquidity crisis as central banks have entered a new regime: unlimited support. However, we have no strong convictions on the depth of the coming solvability crisis.
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EMD Market Update
Gorky Urquieta, Co-Head of the Neuberger Berman Emerging Markets Debt Team, discusses the factors that contributed to the sell-off of EMD assets over the past month and how the team is positioning portfolios in this volatile market environment
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Euro Investment Grade Credit Reacts To The ECB’s Bazooka: Selective Opportunities
Covid-19 is expected to severely damage the European economy in the coming quarters. The answer at the European level to this disruption has been strong on the monetary policy side, with the implementation of the temporary Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme of €750bn and targeted longer-term refinancing operations, and at the single country level, with targeted fiscal measures.
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Covid-19 fixed income update - Market and economic effects of Covid-19 coronavirus
Last week was another astonishing week for global markets, as the impact of Covid-19 spreads through populations and economies worldwide. Global cases have now reached 723,4341 and several new countries have entered lock-down, including the UK.
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Have We Reached Herd Immunity?
Our chief data scientist explains what the data is saying about the spread of COVID-19.
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High Yield: Navigating COVID-19
Barings’ Martin Horne puts the recent volatility in high yield markets into context and describes how the Barings team is both managing risks and finding value opportunities through the crisis.
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Perspectives on Liquidity
Anne Brennan, Chief Risk Officer and Ken DeRegt, COO for Fixed Income, share their insights on managing liquidity in today’s markets, with a look at how this compares to 2008.
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Modern Monetary Theory (MMT): from theory to practice
First, the sanitary situation: still worrying. The total numbers of recorded Covid-19 cases is now over half a million, and the number of deaths close to 25k. Contagion from east to west continues, with the US now the center of attention: the country has more reported cases than China. The total number of cases (world) has grown at an average daily pace of 13% in the week to 26 March, 5 points faster than the previous week.
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Bond investing in uncertain times – stay invested
The economic impact of Covid-19 will be significant in the near term but will take time to show up in the standard economic dataset. The response of fiscal and monetary policy is critical to stabilising financial conditions and instilling confidence.
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EMD: Finding Fundamental Value Through the Storm
The rapid spread of COVID-19, the precipitous fall in oil prices and the related shock to the global economy have sent markets—including EMD—into a tailspin in recent weeks. In this piece, we explore the resulting challenges and discuss opportunities beginning to emerge.
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Fixed Income: More Heavy Lifting from the Fed-While Congress Squabbles
Dr. Sonal Desai weighs in on today’s Fed action.
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Distressed Debt: Despite Challenges, Opportunities Persist
Recent market and economic volatility may be the trigger that distressed debt investors have been waiting for, but capitalizing on opportunities will require a different playbook than those of past cycles.
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Coronavirus: a pragmatic response to market panic
Fixed-income investors loathe uncertainty. But for them and societies worldwide, this is currently the defining characteristic of markets and daily life. How can they respond pragmatically to the pandemic?
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Fixed Income: The Fed speaks loudly and carries a big stick
Reaction to the US Federal Reserve’s dramatic action. CIO Sonal Desai, Franklin Templeton Fixed Income, calls the Fed’s response “massive and well crafted.”
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Distressed Debt: Capturing Late-Cycle Value
Barings’ Stuart Mathieson and Bryan High discuss how recent macro events and credit market dynamics are impacting the outlook for distressed debt.
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Middle Market Direct Lending
Middle market direct lending, embraced by institutional investors, has developed into a mature asset class over the last two decades. The strategy has many attractive attributes: the potential for strong risk-adjusted returns, current income payout, lower volatility compared to other fixed income alternatives, and less correlation to traditional asset classes. With the proliferation of investors allocating capital to the space, it is imperative to recognize that not all direct lending managers are the same.
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New institutional investor insights - 20/20 vision: a clearer path for growth
Diversification and selectivity will become ever more important in 2020 and beyond, especially as we think yields will remain low, returns will be tough to come by and volatility may rise. That means getting more exposure to more opportunities and more risks across asset classes, while remaining nimble.
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IG Credit: The Hidden Risks of “Safe” Bond Strategies
Traditional investment grade bond strategies are meant to help their owners sleep at night. But hidden credit and interest rate risks make benchmark-hugging more hazardous than many realize. Counterintuitively, CLOs, ABS and EM debt may be part of the solution.