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Why 2 Degrees Celsius May Beat 2 Percent CPI
Investors should watch closely as some financial regulators begin to take a more expansive view of their mandates and pay more attention to the planet’s rising temperature.
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A Man, A Plan, A Canal – A Trade War
Trade flows, like water, ultimately find their path.
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Update on drivers in Real Assets - Q2 2019
Fears of a potential global economic slowdown have put interest rate rises on hold. Longer duration assets (infrastructure debt and equity, real estate long income) should capture the higher capital gain if long-term rates fall but are quite insensitive to short-term rates. Despite higher leverage in infrastructure versus real ...
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Views from the LPAC
Over our 25 years investing across private markets, Barings has had the opportunity to hold hundreds of Limited Partner Advisory Committee (LPAC) seats—helping mitigate conflicts of interest, and making suggestions to General Partners (GPs) and Limited Partners (LPs) on best practices.
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Hedge Fund Strategy Outlook Q3 2019
Changing rate environment, heterogeneity within Europe, and a combination of broad macro factors and idiosyncratic situations should create opportunities.
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Back to basics: a contrarian look at cyclicals in credit markets
The US bull run is the country’s longest on record. But we are in the latter stage of the global macroeconomic cycle and warning lights are flashing. We remain focused on corporate fundamentals, asking which high-quality cyclicals could successfully weather a slowdown.
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Fixed Income: Upending the Conventional Approach
The search for yield trudges on amid trade and tariff clashes, and a credit cycle that continues to surprise in its longevity. In this Q&A, Michael Freno, Head of Global Markets, shares his views on where value can still be found and how investors can benefit from looking beyond traditional indexes in high yield, investment grade credit and emerging markets debt.
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Fixed Income: Looking Beyond the Index for Late-Cycle Value
Head of Global Markets, Mike Freno, sheds light on how the Barings’ teams are finding value outside of traditional indexes across high yield, investment grade credit and emerging markets debt.
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Green Bonds: Seeking New Opportunities To Invest For Good
Green bonds have quickly become common across jurisdictions, industries and currencies.
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Revisiting Fixed Income Opportunities After The European Institution Appointments
The appointment of Christine Lagarde as President of the ECB and Ursula Von der Leyen as President of the European Commission are undoubtedly among the best possible compromises, because these are two women of great experience, both very much in favour of strengthening the European Union.
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Private Equity: Where LPs Need to Do Their Homework Now
From fund-life extensions to ESG and diversity efforts, limited partners (LPs) have no shortage of factors to consider when evaluating PE investments. Barings’ Elizabeth Weindruch provides first-hand insight into the latest challenges facing PE investors today.
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Opportunities in Emerging Markets Debt
We believe that emerging markets (EM) offer an enormous range of investment opportunities. This burgeoning marketplace includes more than 75 countries, with sovereign ratings from AAA to default. This country mix includes extremely wealthy countries, to some of the world’s poorest.
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Strategic Relative Value Q2 2019
A quarterly look at how macro events are driving relative value around the globe.
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Five Reasons Why Investors Are Turning To Emerging Markets Corporate Bonds
Hard currency emerging markets (EM) corporate bonds are an under-appreciated and under-owned area of fixed income.
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Health Care Sector Innovation—How Biopharma Scientists Save Lives Globally
Are the newest medicines science fiction? Equity Markets explores biotechnology entering the most transformative phase our health care analysts have seen in 25 years.
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Where Bricks Are Beating Clicks—Implications For Last-Mile Real Estate
How e-commerce disruption helps real estate? Alternative Views explores the global demand shift from physical retail space to industrial logistics space.
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Hermes Unconstrained Credit celebrates one-year anniversary
On 29 May 2018, we launched our Unconstrained Credit Fund. It aims to maximise long-term total returns by combining unconstrained, high-conviction credit selection with a hedge against adverse market conditions. One year on from its launch, we ask: how has Hermes Unconstrained Credit performed?
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Ri Tool: A Portfolio Manager’s Perspective Responsible Investment | March 2019
Our proprietary responsible investment ratings is an innovative tool that combines ESG and financial stewardship data to create a single company rating for 5,500 listed equities globally. So how do our PMs use it?