All Loans articles – Page 3
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Locating the sweet spot in direct lending
On top of a compelling return, the northern European lower mid-market senior secured segment offers less downside risk and one of the best legal environments to negotiate any restructurings.
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The Power of Diversification
Economist Harry Markowitz’s seminal 1952 essay on modern portfolio theory argues that through careful diversification, a portfolio can reduce the ‘specific risk’ associated with individual holdings, and more effectively track wider market performance. In this paper, however, we outline why Markowitz’s theory has limited practical application in private markets, and instead lay out an alternative approach to diversification that we feel is better suited to real estate and private credit.
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Private Debt: Few Facts Behind the Fears
Despite a rising tide of negative media coverage, we believe that private debt still has tremendous potential to deliver attractive risk-adjusted returns for investors. In this piece, we aim to separate fact from fear when sizing up the private debt market, thereby potentially helping investors and allocators capture the opportunities that lie within it.
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Facing the Music: Challenges and Opportunities in Today’s Commercial Real Estate Market
For commercial real estate (CRE) borrowers and lenders, central banks have been a persistent source of frustration in recent years. Aiming to rein in stubborn inflation, the Federal Reserve and most of its peers have maintained elevated interest rates longer than anticipated. That’s their mandate, of course. But the consequences have been immediate pain for CRE borrowers facing higher debt costs, along with a duller discomfort from falling valuations due to reduced liquidity and higher capitalization rates.
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A Soft Landing Is Still a Landing
What do slowing growth, lower inflation, tight credit spreads and a steepening yield curve mean for our fixed income views for the rest of the year? If the big story of the moment in equities is the epic rotation out of mega-cap stocks and into smaller companies, the equivalent in fixed income is the ongoing, sharp unwind of a record-breaking U.S. yield curve inversion.
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High Yield: A Continued Bright Spot
Compelling income opportunities supported by favorable fundamental and technical conditions continue to attract investors to high yield bonds and loans.
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CLO Equity: 101
From quarterly cashflows to compelling total return potential, CLO equity offers a number of potential benefits. But the asset class is often overlooked, due in large part to its perceived complexity relative to more traditional fixed income investments.
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CLOs: The Positive Streak Continues
While CLOs remain well-positioned for the months ahead, we continue to see benefits to staying up in both quality and liquidity.
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Trade finance made simple
In this video, Chris McGinley, Head of Trade Finance, outlines how Federated Hermes’ approach to trade finance differs from peers, how the team navigate risks, and the wider benefits of the strategy.
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Relative Value & Tactical Asset Allocation Q3 2024
We are not expecting a U.S. recession in 2024. We are looking for credit spreads to remain rangebound in the near future, and we prefer high carry while considering downside risks. Consumers and housing fundamentals continued to be solid, while CLOs fundamentals weakened further. Commercial real estate fundamentals are stable, but performance divergences are wide. We are neutral for both corporate equity and cash investments.
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ESG Momentum in Non-Investment Grade Credit
Issuers are facing an increasingly high bar in relation to environmental, social and governance standards. Our recent panel discussion provided ideas on setting goals and working toward achieving them.
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Why Allocate to Private Credit in Your DC Pension Plan?
Saving for a pension isn’t getting any easier. But allocations to private assets—such as private credit—could help. It’s getting harder for UK defined contribution (DC) savers to accumulate realistic amounts of capital for their retirement.Prospective real returns from most asset classes look unlikely to match those of recent years. And the cost-of-living crisis is making it tougher for savers to maintain their current pension contributions, let alone increase them in future. How can DC savers get ahead?
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10 Minute Masterclass—Senior Secured Loans
Senior secured loans offer a unique blend of attractive yield potential with some protection against both credit and interest rate risk. At a high level, senior secured loans have the potential to provide attractive risk-adjusted returns and other portfolio benefits.
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Economic Monthly: Strength or Softness?
Consumers have still not run out of runway. Despite having burned through the famous “excess savings” from pandemic-era stimulus, and despite a softer labor market, we continue to see consumers willing and able to spend. As we elaborate below, continued credit availability, investment spending and the labor market provide enough space for households to maintain their spending habits for the next several months.
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Local banks lead on physical climate risk
The increased frequency of wildfires and flash flooding is already hitting insurance companies. But what about the climate exposures faced by banks in their mortgage and commercial loan books? Will Farrell investigates.
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Senior Secured Loans: 101
At $1.8 trillion, the global senior secured loan market has grown substantially over the last 15 years. Here, we break down the key characteristics of the asset class and touch on how investors can access the many potential benefits on offer.
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Navigating Dynamic High Yield Markets
We have been investing in high yield bonds, loans and CLOs for decades—managing investments on behalf of our clients through the ups and downs of multiple market cycles. And importantly, we have done so with consistency.
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Underwriting the Underwriters: Finding Opportunity in Consumer Loans
When it comes to investing in consumer debt, headlines may be misleading. We see opportunity.
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The Coming Wave of Homebuyers
How higher rates for longer could be positive for U.S. consumption.
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High Yield: What the Market May Be Missing
A closer look at the dynamics shaping today’s high yield bond and loan markets reveals the potential for continued strong performance ahead.