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Shining a light on ESG in bond investing

Shining a light on ESG in bond investing

🕔10:50, 23.Feb 2023

Five perspectives on ESG in bond investing: Views from our fixed income team  Equity investors are often associated with ESG-related discussions and considerations. Bond investors can also have unique and valuable perspectives on ESG matters. Bond investors have access to

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Where We Started, Where We Are, and Where We’re Going

Where We Started, Where We Are, and Where We’re Going

🕔12:46, 7.Feb 2023

Strong and largely unanticipated macro shocks dominated global markets in 2022, negatively impacting investor returns across a wide range of …

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EMD outlook for 2023: local currency yields offer protection in volatile conditions

EMD outlook for 2023: local currency yields offer protection in volatile conditions

🕔13:52, 1.Feb 2023

Key takeaways Global factors weighing on emerging market debt in 2022 look likely to continue in 2023, but high starting yields within EM local currency debt could help offset subsequent price volatility, while negative outcomes appear to be priced in

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EMs with stronger fundamentals should see inflows when they resume

EMs with stronger fundamentals should see inflows when they resume

🕔10:03, 1.Feb 2023

The global environment led to sharp outflows from EM debt markets in 2022. The rise in US interest rates (and increase in EM inflation), combined with the increase in general risk premium, reduced the relative attractiveness of EM debt …

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Brazil presidential election outcome

Brazil presidential election outcome

🕔10:30, 24.Jan 2023

Below are some takeaways by Capital Group’s emerging market sovereign debt analyst Thomas Kontchou on important economic and policy considerations given the leftist candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s victory in Brazil’s presidential election.  The leftist Workers’ Party candidate Luiz

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PowerPoint Presentation

PowerPoint Presentation

🕔02:13, 19.Jan 2023

The macroeconomic backdrop, and regime shift, created a challenging environment for EM assets in 2022. Slowing economic growth, accelerating inflation, exacerbated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and tighter global financial conditions were all headwinds. EM local and dollar debt both

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Emerging Markets Lens: Emerging Market Debt

Emerging Markets Lens: Emerging Market Debt

🕔23:08, 18.Jan 2023

The macroeconomic backdrop, and regime shift, created a challenging environment for EM assets in 2022. Slowing economic growth, accelerating inflation, exacerbated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and tighter global financial conditions were all headwinds. EM local and dollar debt both

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Bedrijfsobligaties uit opkomende markten beginnen te schitteren

Bedrijfsobligaties uit opkomende markten beginnen te schitteren

🕔10:47, 30.Dec 2022

Obligaties uit opkomende markten bieden enkele van de aantrekkelijkste rendementen ten opzichte van risico sinds vele jaren, vooral in het licht van de sterke fundamentals van bedrijven en de economie. Professionele beleggers zeggen al lachend dat het VK een opkomende

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Brazil presidential election outcome

Brazil presidential election outcome

🕔16:36, 16.Nov 2022

Below are some takeaways by Capital Group’s emerging market sovereign debt analyst Thomas Kontchou on important economic and policy considerations given the leftist candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s victory in Brazil’s presidential election.

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ESG in de Praktijk Mary-Therese Barton over het engagement met soevereine kredietnemers uit opkomende markten

ESG in de Praktijk Mary-Therese Barton over het engagement met soevereine kredietnemers uit opkomende markten

🕔14:28, 16.Nov 2022

Praten over thema's als onderwijs of gezondheidszorg met overheden maakt deel uit van onze fiduciaire plicht – en helpt ons een holistische visie te vormen op de landen waarin we beleggen, zegt Mary-Therese Barton, Head of Emerging Market Debt.

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Navigating dark clouds across emerging markets debt

Navigating dark clouds across emerging markets debt

🕔08:23, 12.Nov 2022

It has been an unrelenting year of negative headlines, with a war in Ukraine, inflation concerns and recession fears jolting investors into a frenzy. Capital Group Investment Director David Cheng sat down with Portfolio Manager Luis Freitas de Oliveira to

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Emerging market debt: an active approach

Emerging market debt: an active approach

🕔08:20, 12.Nov 2022

Emerging market debt (EMD) has already broadened and deepened significantly in the last few decades and as the asset class has developed, it has become more appealing to a broader investor base. Issuance has increased, thereby improving liquidity. Yield curves

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Hard and local currency bonds provide different routes to returns

Hard and local currency bonds provide different routes to returns

🕔14:27, 5.Nov 2022

Emerging market (EM) bonds are a strategic holding for many investors. But the desired result from an allocation to emerging market debt cannot be achieved without first considering the attributes of hard- and local currency-denominated bonds — the two broad

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Pictet Asset Management : Duurzaamheid blijft belangrijk in opkomende obligatiemarkten

Pictet Asset Management : Duurzaamheid blijft belangrijk in opkomende obligatiemarkten

🕔09:06, 29.Aug 2022

Stijgende wereldwijde rentes en volatiele markten hebben zwaar gewogen op zowel het aanbod van als de vraag naar obligaties, vooral in opkomende markten (EM). Toch bleef één segment verrassend veerkrachtig. Uit onderzoek van Pictet Asset Management blijkt dat obligaties die

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Schroders Emerging Markets Lens: Emerging Market Debt

Schroders Emerging Markets Lens: Emerging Market Debt

🕔16:07, 4.Aug 2022

Summary Hard currency emerging market debt (EMD): – Valuations vary: 1. The spreads of investment grade (IG) sovereign and IG corporate indices are close to their historical medians. High yield (HY) corporate index spreads have inched slightly above the historical

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Q&A: impact of the Russia-Ukraine conflict on emerging market debt

Q&A: impact of the Russia-Ukraine conflict on emerging market debt

🕔09:08, 27.Jun 2022

In this Q&A, Kirstie Spence and Robert Burgess share their views on Russia, commodity prices and the impact of the conflict on emerging markets.  How does the Russia-Ukraine conflict compare to previous periods of geopolitical instability? Kirstie: The current situation

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Quarterly macro and market insights

Quarterly macro and market insights

🕔14:12, 27.May 2022

Moderating global growth as policymakers grapple with persistent inflation Global economic growth looks likely to continue in 2022, albeit at a more modest pace. The COVID-19 pandemic does, however, add uncertainty to the outlook, as evidenced by the recent emergence

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Emerging market debt outlook for 2022

Emerging market debt outlook for 2022

🕔09:55, 25.Apr 2022

Higher inflation and in some cases, rising inflation expectations, have been a key focus for investors this year, in both emerging and developed markets (DM). This is against a backdrop of large fiscal and monetary stimulus from governments around the

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Q&A on Russian debt

Q&A on Russian debt

🕔14:25, 19.Apr 2022

Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine, which has become Europe’s largest ground war in generations, has impacted millions of people and triggered a large-scale humanitarian crisis as vulnerable Ukrainians take shelter or flee their homes. The intensification and spread of the

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Emerging Market Debt Market Commentary – January 2022

Emerging Market Debt Market Commentary – January 2022

🕔08:37, 7.Mar 2022

Emerging market debt (in USD terms) experienced a tepid start to 2022 as a sell-off in US Treasuries put pressure on a range of risk assets. This included EM local rates, depressing both local and hard currency returns. Concerns around

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Emerging Market Debt Market Commentary – January 2022

Emerging Market Debt Market Commentary – January 2022

🕔15:18, 1.Mar 2022

Emerging market debt (in USD terms) experienced a tepid start to 2022 as a sell-off in US Treasuries put pressure on a range of risk assets. This included EM local rates, depressing both local and hard currency returns. Concerns around

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Emerging Market Debt Market Commentary – January 2022

Emerging Market Debt Market Commentary – January 2022

🕔15:47, 15.Feb 2022

Emerging market debt (in USD terms) experienced a tepid start to 2022 as a sell-off in US Treasuries put pressure on a range of risk assets. This included EM local rates, depressing both local and hard currency returns. Concerns around

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Rate hikes and inflation taming could prove a tough balancing act for the Fed

Rate hikes and inflation taming could prove a tough balancing act for the Fed

🕔13:42, 14.Feb 2022

Fixed Income Perspectives Bond Market Outlook Global Rates: Yields to edge higher driven by ongoing inflation worries and 2022 rate-hike expectations Global Currencies: U.S. dollar to remain range-bound as market balances global Covid concerns, hawkish central bank policies Investment Grade:

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Emerging Market Debt in 2022

Emerging Market Debt in 2022

🕔11:10, 9.Feb 2022

5 investment solutions Emerging markets (EM) never fail to present a challenging and diverse investment landscape. While there are always opportunities for alpha generation, not all investment strategies pursue approaches that are likely to be fruitful in today’s climate. Here

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COVID and Inflation Seen Driving Pace of Fed Tightening in 2022

COVID and Inflation Seen Driving Pace of Fed Tightening in 2022

🕔12:58, 2.Feb 2022

“The hawkish December FOMC minutes released in early January suggested rate hikes ‘sooner or at a faster pace’ than previously expected, while also raising forecasted inflation to 2.6% in 2022 — an increase over the 2.2% projected last September. There

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Schroders Emerging Markets Lens: Emerging Market Debt

Schroders Emerging Markets Lens: Emerging Market Debt

🕔10:25, 31.Jan 2022

Valuations vary 1. Investment grade (IG) sovereign and corporate spreads are well below historical medians 2. High yield (HY) spreads offer more value, especially in sovereign EMD where the dispersion between countries has increased

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The Aristotle List: 10 improbable but possible outcomes for 2022

The Aristotle List: 10 improbable but possible outcomes for 2022

🕔15:56, 11.Jan 2022

Uncommon truths  It is time to forget central scenarios and think about improbable but possible outcomes. Market sentiment is now mixed (thanks to the Fed), so our list of surprises contains something for everybody (these hypothetical predictions are our views

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A tough week for Turkey

A tough week for Turkey

🕔10:38, 5.Jan 2022

Macro / government bonds All three major central banks making decisions last week have demonstrated that they no longer regard the downside risks to economic activity over the coming months as outweighing the need to address inflation pressure.

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Quarterly macro and market insights

Quarterly macro and market insights

🕔08:22, 10.Dec 2021

Positive but slower global growth is meeting with greater inflation pressures   The global economy maintained its Growth potential is on track to outpace pre-pandemic times positive overall trajectory, though economic indicators grew more mixed. Returns across fixed income were mostly

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Playing second fiddle

Playing second fiddle

🕔09:50, 25.Nov 2021

US FIXED INCOME 2022 OUTLOOK That’s how the 2022 economic forecasts feel when compared to 2021. For ’22, we see real growth running about 4%, or two times trend. That’s typically great performance, but when you’re coming off a phenomenal

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ETFs in EM local debt: Do they work?

ETFs in EM local debt: Do they work?

🕔08:34, 28.Oct 2021

In recent years we’ve seen a surge of interest in exchange traded funds (ETFs) as a cost efficient and effective way to try and replicate market index performance. But are ETFs as effective as investors think? As part of our

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Chinese Bonds: Enhancing a European Fixed Income Portfolio

Chinese Bonds: Enhancing a European Fixed Income Portfolio

🕔10:35, 18.Oct 2021

Executive Summary Improved access for foreign investors to China’s large bond market has started a conversation around the place of Chinese bonds within a global portfolio. Investors are now evaluating whether to make an allocation and, if they do, what

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Fixed Income Strategy September 2021

Fixed Income Strategy September 2021

🕔10:46, 27.Sep 2021

Strategy Summary The FIXED INCOME MONTHLY provides a forward-looking summary of the medium-term views from the Fidelity Fixed Income team. Our investment approach is multi-strategy, with portfolio managers given clear accountability and fiduciary responsibility for all investment decisions in a

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From growth euphoria to inflation blues

From growth euphoria to inflation blues

🕔16:01, 5.Aug 2021

Global Investment Views  The past weeks have confirmed that phase one of the ‘great recovery’ is now behind us. We have entered a new sequence: PMIs decelerating from their peaks and concerns about the spread of the Delta Covid19 variant

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Emerging Markets: Using illiquid credit to address long-term investment goals

Emerging Markets: Using illiquid credit to address long-term investment goals

🕔12:27, 30.Apr 2021

Despite having successfully navigated volatile markets and the uncertain economic outlook in 2020, long-term institutional investors continue to face significant challenges. Surveys show 66% of pension funds consider themselves to be cashflow negative and 53% of those that are cashflow

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Emerging Market Debt Looks Attractive Amid Recovery

Emerging Market Debt Looks Attractive Amid Recovery

🕔14:33, 22.Apr 2021

Interest rate volatility has been the main driver of performance in credit markets over the past couple of months. Heightened inflation expectations drove US Treasury rates sharply higher in March, with 10-year Treasuries reaching levels not seen since January 2020,

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Going beyond “active vs. passive” in EM debt

Going beyond “active vs. passive” in EM debt

🕔12:59, 31.Mar 2021

These are promising times for emerging markets (EM) debt, as we see a number of macro factors aligning in a broad tail wind for the sector. EM economic growth is leading the global recovery, yet EM is the only major sector with broadly attractive valuations. In developed markets, while rates have backed up from their extreme lows at the start of the year, monetary policies continue to anchor core …

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Emerging Market Debt The Search For Yield In High Beta Markets

Emerging Market Debt The Search For Yield In High Beta Markets

🕔16:51, 23.Mar 2021

According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Emerging Markets’ Gross domestic product (GDP) should reach 6% and 8.2% for China, on the back of vaccine deployments and accommodative central banks. Combined with attractive credit …

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Five reasons to be bullish on local-currency emerging-market debt

Five reasons to be bullish on local-currency emerging-market debt

🕔10:12, 23.Mar 2021

Emerging-market economies did not shut down to the degree that occurred in developed-market economies in the face of COVID-19 in 2020, and neither are they are shutting down as aggressively now. While significant growth downgrades for 2020 …

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ESG and EMD – taking the long view

ESG and EMD – taking the long view

🕔11:09, 15.Mar 2021

Governments everywhere are racing to lock in historically low borrowing costs by issuing ever longer dated debt – in recent years Mexico and Argentina even managed to sell century bonds. That presents several new challenges for fixed income investors. Particularly those who own …

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ESG en EMD – een langetermijnvisie

ESG en EMD – een langetermijnvisie

🕔10:16, 10.Mar 2021

Beleggers met allocaties naar obligaties uit opkomende markten moeten nu begrijpen wat de werkelijke impact is op opkomende economieën van langetermijnfactoren zoals de klimaatverandering en de ontwikkeling van menselijk kapitaal.

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When Emerging Market Debt Dances to the Inflation Tune

When Emerging Market Debt Dances to the Inflation Tune

🕔14:16, 3.Mar 2021

Rising oil prices are front and center of the markets’ narrative  at present. What this potentially means for emerging market (EM) countries and how it impacts inflation and—in particular—currencies were …

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EM local bonds shine in a low-yield world

EM local bonds shine in a low-yield world

🕔11:08, 26.Jan 2021

The stars are aligning for emerging market local debt. The asset class may have been in the doldrums since the global financial crisis, but it is now poised to outperform thanks to a raft of positive factors – from emerging markets’ solid economic fundamentals and undervalued …

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More than zero: Using emerging markets bonds to optimise portfolios

More than zero: Using emerging markets bonds to optimise portfolios

🕔12:26, 22.Jan 2021

More than zero: Using emerging markets bonds to optimise portfolios There are a number of reasons many investors do not yet have emerging markets (EM) bonds in their portfolio, including awareness, understanding and difficulty of access. All of this means

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Seeking out good alpha opportunities in emerging market debt

Seeking out good alpha opportunities in emerging market debt

🕔08:23, 11.Jan 2021

There are reasons to expect a slower and less comprehensive vaccine roll-out among EMs than in richer countries, and the fiscal damage done to already-fragile sovereign balance sheets may increase vulnerabilities. But the steady recovery of the asset class since

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Seeking out good alpha opportunities in emerging market debt

Seeking out good alpha opportunities in emerging market debt

🕔09:43, 30.Dec 2020

The legacy of Covid-19 in emerging markets (EMs) may take some time to become clear. Having lagged advanced economies’ initial surge in cases in March and April, lower income countries experienced highly concerning case growth at the end of the

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#EmergingMarketDebt – Research Highlights

#EmergingMarketDebt – Research Highlights

🕔11:28, 28.Dec 2020

#EmergingMarketDebt In December of 2020, Capital Group published an outlook for emerging market debt. In this paper the global macro environment and the development of the pandemic are pointed to as the drivers for the returns of emerging market debt

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Emerging market debt outlook for 2021

Emerging market debt outlook for 2021

🕔11:26, 17.Dec 2020

Investment Insights  2020 was a volatile year for emerging markets (EM). EM debt faced underperformance during the first half of the year, a sharp retracement and outperformance relative to developed markets during the early summer, and subsequent bouts of intermittent

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Local-currency emerging-market debt outlook supported by macro backdrop

Local-currency emerging-market debt outlook supported by macro backdrop

🕔14:55, 14.Dec 2020

December 2020  Emerging-market debt (EMD) continued to benefit from a broad market rally in the third quarter of 2020, with local-currency sovereign EMD, hard-currency sovereign and corporate credit all posting positive returns. We hold a higher conviction for currencies, as

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Elections and a vaccine: Implications for fixed income investors

Elections and a vaccine: Implications for fixed income investors

🕔14:50, 11.Dec 2020

Investment Insights   The US election results and the announcement of a potential COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer have been pivotal events in markets, initially providing a substantial boost to risk assets. Mixed economic data and a rapidly rising rate of coronavirus

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