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Alternative Investments
Don't Judge a Private Equity Fund by its Number
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At Barings, contrary to popular belief, we believe that identifying high-quality opportunities in emerging and diverse private equity managers can deliver attractive risk-adjusted returns to investors.
Investing Ideas
Streaming Income - Assessing Today’s Private Credit Landscape
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Private credit markets have seen an exponential increase in investor demand over the last 10 years. But with competition fierce and the cycle maturing, what’s next? Barings’ Eric Lloyd talks about where he sees value today and how risks from Brexit to rate hikes are impacting the asset class.
Investing Ideas
Streaming Income - CLOs & Leveraged Loans: Perception vs. Reality
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Leveraged loans and collateralized loan obligations (CLOs) are back in the headlines with the market’s recent bout of volatility. How prepared are these credit instruments to weather the next economic storm? Barings’ Matthew Natcharian and Adrienne Butler weigh in.
Investing Ideas
Streaming Income - Investment Grade Credit: Rates, BBBs and ABS
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IG investors today are grappling with mixed signals from the yield curve, a bulging BBB-rated universe and the continued expansion of ABS markets. David Nagle, a 30+ year veteran of fixed income markets helps to put today’s most recent developments in perspective.
Behavioral Finance
Keeping Emotions in Check – A Historical Guide to Market Volatility
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One of the biggest challenges in investing is to stay focused and on course. Investors must look at the markets from a historical perspective for broader context, and to better understand why it is important to stay the course during both calm and perilous markets.
Investing Ideas
Streaming Income - Climbing High Yield’s Wall of Worry
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Global high yield markets face a number of risks, from trade wars to rising rates. Yet, these markets have continued to scale such a ‘wall of worry’ for the last decade. Should we expect more of the same, or are we nearing a turning point in the cycle?
Alternative Investments
Alternative Investments: Myths & misconceptions
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A lot of misunderstanding surrounds alternative investments. Some investors still think of them as high-risk, exotic funds reserved for ultra-high-net-worth individuals and institutions. However the reality is that alternatives have a place in nearly every portfolio.
Sustainable Investing
Jim Patrick on the Future of Impact
Jim Patrick provides his insights on the future of impact investing at the Envestnet Advisor Summit.
Sustainable Investing
Societal Impact vs. Financial Return: A Case of “Either/Or” No More
Many investors who find impact investing potentially appealing have at the same time struggled with a notion that investing for the “greater good” will always be “concessionary,” that is, accompanied by some loss of financial performance.
Investing Ideas
The Bid: Maxing the Factors of Market Outperformance
How can investors beat the market? One group at BlackRock is challenging the notion of traditional stock picking, instead zeroing in on certain factors to help lead to outperformance.
Investing Ideas
Factor Investing: Unlocking The Real Drivers of Return
Investing is harder than ever today. The good news is that factor investing— is empowering investors by identifying and precisely targeting broad, persistent and long-recognized drivers of return.