All Fixed Income articles – Page 2
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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 papersU.S. High Yield: Beyond the Maturity Wall
The maturity wall facing U.S. high yield bond issuers is sizeable. But given the market’s composition today, the wall appears less daunting for issuers—and, for investors, it’s helping shape potentially compelling opportunities.
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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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VideoWhat Role Can Emerging Markets Debt Play in Institutional Portfolios?
Emerging markets debt (EMD) has grown significantly in breadth and depth over the past two decades, creating a more diverse opportunity set for institutional investors. Against a backdrop of changing trade dynamics, shifting commodity prices and divergent country fundamentals, the panel explores the role of careful selection, active management and bottom-up research when assessing the asset class.
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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 papersCross Asset Investment Strategy - May 2026
Topic of the month - EM debt: reading the shock and finding opportunities
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White papersApril CPI report: Fed easing is becoming increasingly unlikely in 2026
After an extended period of cooling inflation, the impact of the Middle East conflict is driving a reacceleration in prices. Headline inflation rose 0.6% in April, lifting the annual rate to 3.8% and approaching a three-year high. Similar to March, energy was the largest contributor, accounting for over 40% of the increase. The more notable development in today’s report, however, was the upside surprise in core inflation, which excludes food and energy.
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White papersStarmer Drama - ‘It’s not about who’s in charge - it’s about the maths’
In the latest Fixed on Bonds blog, Lloyd Harris examines the structural forces behind rising gilt yields, highlighting how markets are responding to debt dynamics, fiscal constraints and policy credibility, rather than political headlines alone.
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VideoUS High Yield Market Update – Performance, outlook, and portfolio positioning
In this quarterly update video, Jack Stephenson, US Fixed Income Investment Specialist, discusses what’s driving performance in US high yield right now, his current outlook for the asset class, and how the team are positioning portfolios for the months ahead.
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White papersComing of age: Fixed income and changing demographics
The Day of Seven Billion took place in 2011 to much fanfare. The world’s population reached a landmark number, yet 11 years later in 2022 the world hit 8 billion, relatively unmarked. For generations, we have become accustomed to a growing world, largely driven by emerging market countries such as India and China. However, now we face a different prospect – one of slower birth rates and older populations. The global population is projected to peak at 10.3 billion by the mid-2080s before gradually declining.
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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 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.
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White papersSystematic Active Fixed Income Turns 2
Systematic Active Fixed Income’s (SAFI) first two years reinforce the power of our investment process also demonstrating how SAFI can complement fundamental active managers given low alpha correlations. Read more about the 2-year SAFI experience at State Street.
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White papersCIO Weekly: The Fed’s New Era
Last week’s Federal Reserve meeting was always going to be less about rates than about legacy: what Fed Chair Jay Powell leaves behind and what his successor, Kevin Warsh, walks into.
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White papersPolicy on pause
“Global central banks are assessing the extent of the stagflationary shock. They want to keep market and consumer inflation expectations in check, while also retaining the flexibility to respond to any shock to growth and consumption. This is what we call disciplined optionality.”
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White papersThe presence of absence
Powell will no longer speak from the podium, but by remaining on the Fed board, his voice remains.
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VideoPrivate Credit Roundtable (2/3): How investors are assessing today’s credit cycle
Recent defaults have raised questions about the state of the credit cycle. In part 2 of the private credit roundtable series, our investors discuss whether these are early warning signs or simply pockets of dislocation.
