Latest Manager Research – Page 27
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White papersEuropean High Yield: A Compelling Case in an Uncertain World
European high yield has been resilient during periods of lower growth. And, looking forward, we believe there are several key reasons why the asset class remains well-positioned, despite the unknowns on the horizon.
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White papersInfrastructure Debt: A Strategic Anchor in a Shifting Landscape
Infrastructure debt is evolving into a cornerstone of institutional portfolios. Barings explores how macro trends, financing shifts, and investor innovation are reshaping the market and unlocking long-term value.
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White papersThe Many Sub-Asset Classes Within Fund Finance
In this interview with Private Debt Investor, Matt Hansford, Head of Europe, Portfolio Finance, discusses the rise of fund finance as a core institutional asset class and explains why generating alpha and rapid capital deployment are some of its key advantages.
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White papersHow can insurers position credit portfolios amid higher risk and uncertainty?
Insurers face a challenging credit landscape, with spreads near historic tights and limited dispersion. As uncertainty persists, strategies focused on credit quality, liquidity, and spread duration are gaining traction. Evolving regulations and underutilised asset classes, like high-quality structured credit, offer new opportunities to strengthen portfolios and enhance long-term resilience.
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White papersCRE in an easing cycle: Why long rates matter more than the Fed
As central banks approach an easing cycle, long-term yields—not short-term Fed actions—are becoming the key driver of real estate pricing and investment performance globally.
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White papersData center development opportunities in secondary markets
Secondary U.S. markets are emerging as key growth hubs for data centers, driven by strong digital infrastructure demand, power availability, and cost advantages over primary markets.
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White papersUS dollar dominance: Playing Jenga with the global monetary system
Assumptions that underpin the US dollar’s status as the world’s primary reserve currency are eroding more quickly than expected. What happens if the tower starts to collapse?
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White papersEmerging Market Bonds: Moving in the Right Direction
A weaker dollar and FED easing cycle are fueling strong performance and renewed inflows into emerging market fixed income. Solid fiscal reforms and improving credit metrics further enhance the appeal, especially in key markets within a heterogeneous universe.
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White papersAI research trip reaffirms bullish outlook
Over the summer a group of our analysts and portfolio managers spent a week in San Francisco. The trip was an integral part of our ongoing research into artificial intelligence (AI) and related investment opportunities. Our scale as investors affords us exceptional corporate access and during our time in San Francisco we met senior leaders from around a dozen different technology companies, from heavyweights like NVIDIA and Broadcom to names operating throughout the data supply chain.
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White papersECB strategy review: The investment implications
A cursory glance at the European Central Bank’s (ECB) 2025 monetary policy strategy assessment shows no major changes to its last review four years earlier – something which should, in the main, comfort investors. However, a deeper dive into the document and the surrounding macroeconomic backdrop reveals it to be - in our view at least - an ECB strategy policy overhaul, rather than a technical fine-tuning exercise.
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White papersDivergence calls for diversification: Asia’s investors look to Europe
Over more than a decade, many Asian countries have looked beyond their own borders for long-term investment opportunities, with significant amounts of capital being directed towards the US. This year we note that Asian investors are increasingly aiming at rebalancing their portfolios, with European assets deemed as an attractive alternative.
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White papersStructural shifts: Can Asia Pacific living leverage its home advantage?
Asia Pacific is charting a course toward substantial growth in its living sectors. Evolving demographics, urban migration and policy initiatives are driving rental market booms in Japan and expanding investible opportunities in Australia and South Korea. So, how are these structural shifts influencing investment strategies against a backdrop of global economic uncertainty?
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White papersPrivate credit’s next phase: finding opportunity in a maturing market
The private credit market has experienced remarkable growth in recent years, with significant increases in capital inflows from both institutional and retail channels. Its success and expansion has naturally attracted scrutiny, with some observers questioning the sustainability of the asset class. This paper offers an alternative perspective: the current state of private credit represents a natural progression of a maturing asset class.
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White papersCharting new currents: Top 10 with… Interview with Joe Sciortino on private credit
Amid tighter regulation, macroeconomic uncertainty, and changing bank appetites, investors are increasingly looking to private credit for stability and opportunity.
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White papersCryptocurrencies break into the mainstream
The digital asset landscape is undergoing a profound transformation, partly due to regulatory shifts that are lowering some of the barriers that previously deterred regulated financial institutions from entering the market. After years of being dominated by retail investors and early adopters, institutional interest in crypto assets is now emerging and has the potential to shape how the ecosystem matures, as well as how its credibility evolves.
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White papersCentral Banks Struggle to Regain the Rates Narrative
Major central banks’ unconvincing mix of policy cuts and pauses last week shows they are struggling to regain the global rates narrative. Amid the uncertainty, relative value opportunities are emerging.
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White papersFed may cut further, amid weaker employment
At its September meeting, the Fed cut the Fed Funds target range by 25bp to 4.00-4.25%, as expected. The Fed’s economic projections showed the median Fed Funds forecast shifting to a total of 75bp of cuts this year, implying a 25bp cut at each of the remaining two meetings. This is happening at a time when both the ECB and BoE left rates unchanged, thus providing opportunities for global fixed income investors to play central banks’ policy asynchrony.
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White papersAn introduction to real estate debt
Over the last several years, we have seen an increase in the number of institutional investors around the world interested in adding real estate debt to their portfolios. In some instances, this is to replace an allocation to traditional fixed income, while in others it is both an enhancement and a way to further diversify their current level of real estate holdings.
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White papersInflation or employment? The Fed makes its choice
The scales have tipped in the US Federal Reserve’s (Fed) long-running balancing act between taming inflation and promoting full employment. With September’s quarter-point interest rate cut, the first such move in nine months, Fed officials appear to have made the labour market a key concern.
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White papersInside LaSalle’s real estate credit strategy
Stability, opportunity, and $700 million in new commitments
