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Growing investment opportunities amid bank deleveraging trend
The structural need for European banks to deleverage, particularly with new capital rules under Basel IV coming into effect from 2025 (dubbed as the Basel “Endgame”), is incentivising banks to engage in ‘risk-sharing’ regulatory capital solutions like Significant Risk Transfer and other asset solutions such as Specialty Finance trades. As banks double-down on capital relief and balance sheet optimisation, this is creating an attractive and unique entry point for investors to gain exposure to the core, yet ‘harder-to-access’, parts of bank balance sheets and earn potentially attractive risk-adjusted returns.
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Global growth forecast revised higher, again
”As long as inflation is not resurging, better growth should support equities. We favour a diversified global approach and selective stories, such as India.”
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Unlocking Buy and Maintain strategies’ full potential
Join us for an insightful discussion where our portfolio managers will share their perspectives on optimising Buy and Maintain strategies for future scenarios.
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ECB’s next move should be a rate cut
”Inflation remains the main driver of central banks’ policy actions. We could see more appetite for European bonds as the ECB looks on track to start cutting rates in June.”
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Emerging Market Debt Outlook: Opportunities Amid Uncertainty
2024 is already shaping up to be a year of considerable uncertainty. The first quarter has given us a taste of that with a sharp reversal of expectations for the US economy and the monetary policy plan of the Federal Reserve.
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Fixed Income Sector Views: Walking, not running, the last mile of inflation
Franklin Templeton Fixed Income believes the US economy shows strength, while the European economy remains stagnant, and both central banks are looking for continued evidence of lower inflation before starting their easing cycles. Read more in the latest Sector Views.
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Direct lending is not going away
A look at private credit, and why increased activity in the broadly syndicated loans space is not necessarily a bad thing for direct lending, and vice versa, from Benefit Street Partners Managing Director Anant Kumar.
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SDG Engagement High Yield Credit: 2023 Annual Report
In the four years since the launch of the SDG Engagement High Yield Credit strategy, the investment and engagement team has built strong relationships with companies all around the world, in sectors that are key to achieving the SDGs.
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Fixed Income Investment Outlook 2Q 2024
Investors continue to wait for clear signals as to the timing and extent of interest rate cuts. After last year’s significant progress on prices, inflation remains elevated and slow in its path toward target levels. That said, although the timing remains uncertain, we believe that the Federal Reserve and European Central Bank will likely begin their downward journey sometime this year.
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Best ideas across asset classes
Stocks have enjoyed a strong rally, but despite (or perhaps because of) recent price increases, we retain an overall neutral view toward global equities. Continued strength in the global economy, and especially remarkable resilience in the U.S., provide a solid foundation for stocks. However, valuations have become stretched thanks to what we believe are overly dovish expectations for interest rate declines and monetary policy.
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Portfolio construction themes
Like surfers bobbing in the ocean as they look for the perfect wave, many investors today believe better conditions will come if they just hold out long enough. But delaying too long could mean missing the ride entirely.
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Private Credit Outlook: The Bright Side of Higher Rates
More clarity on interest rates means more clarity on the investment outlook and the opportunities across private markets.
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Central Bank Watch: Easing on the horizon
The Franklin Templeton Fixed Income (FTFI) Central Bank Watch is a qualitative assessment of the central banks for the Group of Ten (G10) nations plus two additional countries (China and South Korea).
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Does corruption perception matter to investors?
It’s not lost on any investor that nearly half the world’s population is set to participate in elections this year, with a select few anticipated to significantly alter a country’s trajectory. With this in mind, we ask, do corruption perception trends matter to investors?
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Strong Tailwinds Keep Infrastructure Debt on Course
In this Q&A, Pieter Welman discusses what makes infrastructure debt attractive for investors, how the role of private credit in infrastructure is developing, and where he sees opportunities across the market.
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Your Questions Answered: Unconstrained Credit
In this video, Fraser Lundie, Head of Fixed Income – Public Markets, responds to the key questions that are front of mind for credit investors at the present time.
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Six reasons to consider an unconstrained approach to credit
After two years in deep freeze, appetite for risk in fixed income has begun once more to flow. In this update, we identify six reasons why an unconstrained credit approach may make sense from here.
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Unveiling the value of EM debt
We believe Emerging Markets Debt (EMD) should serve as a core allocation in investors’ portfolios. The asset class has traditionally been perceived as a tactical investment opportunity or as an off-benchmark allocation. Instead, we believe a favourable macroeconomic outlook, the growth and transformation of the universe and the diversification benefits it offers means EMD should be a core allocation in investors’ portfolios.
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Central banks’ divergences in sight
”Differences in economic paths across countries may lead to diverging monetary policies, creating potential opportunities for global bond investors.”
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Re-Emerging Markets
After two years of record-breaking outflows, is emerging markets debt due for a turnaround?