Sentences with phrase «schroders emerging market debt»

And while most emerging market debt continues to be issued in local currencies, the IIF said that foreign currency denominated debt issued in these nations swelled by $ 800 billion last year to a record high of $ 8.3 trillion.

«Most central banks across emerging markets have completed rate cutting cycles,» said Jim Barrineau, co-head of emerging markets debt at Schroders Investment Management.

In the short - term, however, this increased leverage may actually be bullish for junk bonds, corporate bonds, emerging market debt and mortgage - backed securities as it brings higher prices and lower yields, he said.

There's opportunity in emerging market debt despite growing concerns over higher credit levels and the impact of a strong dollar, the chief executive of Goldman Sachs Asset Management told CNBC on Tuesday.

Although there may not be a bond bubble, with investors starved for yield, Gundlach predicts a potential bubble could form in credit risk as investors increase their leverage on riskier debt securities like junk bonds and emerging market debt.

These include currency - hedged ETFs, triple - levered ETFs based on commodities, unconstrained bond funds with short positions betting against U.S. Treasurys, private equity funds, emerging market debt instruments, historically less - liquid bank loan funds, and all manner of actively managed strategies packaged in supposedly easy to buy and sell wrappers.

In 1998 you had a rolling crisis of sorts where lots of little problems (emerging market debt scares) eventually boiled over into one bigger problem (the Russian default) and then appeared to be rolling over into foreign markets with the LTCM debacle.

He became cohead of the global emerging markets debt group that year.

They could then reinvest that cash into higher yielding assets such as, say, emerging market debt.

Overall, this augurs for globally diverse fixed income exposures, including a preference for up - in - quality credit exposures and an allocation to emerging market debt for investors who can tolerate the added risk.

Our team of credit professionals deliver sales and trading capabilities across a wide range of fixed income asset classes including high yield, distressed and investment grade bonds, convertible bonds, public and private corporate securities, leveraged loans and emerging market debt.

Richard explains why we are upgrading European equities to overweight and downgrading emerging market debt to neutral over...

Some interesting stuff to note: watch how REITs (VNQ) become more closely correlated with equities during the financial crisis, how distant emerging market debt (EMB) is from everything else, and the changing relationship between silver (SLV) and gold (GLD).

Investment grade and emerging market debt spreads are right in line with the historical trend line since 2006.

Emerging market debt represented by the Bloomberg Barclays Emerging Market Debt Index, an unmanaged index that tracks total returns for externalcurrency - denominated debt instruments of the emerging markets.

As you can see in the chart below, one of the portfolio's strengths is the freedom it has to go beyond traditional sources of income and pursue nontraditional income sources — such as ETF exposure to bank loans, preferred stock, and emerging market debt — in order to seek yield.

We prefer selected subordinated financial debt within European credit and favor high - quality U.S. credit and emerging market debt over government bonds, but credit valuations are elevated across the board.

Amid an emerging markets debt crisis in 1998, the Fed cut interest rates to try to guard the United States against economic fallout, which helped the stock market gain a whopping 29 percent that year despite the global troubles.

For example, emerging market debt is up over 10 % year - to - date (Bloomberg data).

John Stopford, portfolio manager of the Investec GSF Global Strategic Income Fund and co-head of the Investec multi-asset team, says 2014 may be a difficult year for corporate credit and a modest one for emerging markets debt, «but there may be an attractive long - term buying opportunity later in the year.»

«The opportunity in emerging market debt looks better, with many currencies having weakened significantly,» he adds.

The continuing low level of government bond yields has supported the search for yield that has been evident over the past couple of years, with the spread between yields on US government debt and yields on both corporate and emerging market debt remaining around historical lows over the past three months (Box B).

Liam is our Head of Emerging Markets Debt, overseeing a global team of EMD portfolio managers and holding ultimate responsibility for the commercial growth of the EMD business and delivering strong investment performance across our wide range of products.

With interest rates on low - risk investments falling to low levels in many countries, investors have sought to maintain yields by moving into higher - risk assets such as corporate debt and emerging market debt.

On 10/24/16, the Schroder Absolute Return EMD and Currency Fund (the «Predecessor Fund») was reorganized into the Hartford Schroders Emerging Markets Debt & Currency Fund, a new Hartford Fund that has substantially the same objective and strategies as the Predecessor Fund.

Spreads on emerging market debt have narrowed by around 500 basis points.

In September 2010, Clothilde joined Natixis Asset Management as Currency and Global Emerging markets debt portfolio manager.

He worked as an Emerging Market Debt and Currency Strategist for AllianceBernstein from 1998 to 2010.

From 1996 to 1998, he was the Latin American Equity Strategist at Salomon Smith Barney, and from 1994 to 1996 he was the Emerging Market Debt Strategist at the same firm.

Since 2009, he has been part of the fixed income investment team, with a particular focus on emerging market debt and developed market sovereign debt.

Central bank intervention in global bond markets has «crowded out» many traditional fixed income investors, driving them to seek yield and income from non-traditional and riskier asset classes such as high yield, emerging markets debt, leveraged loans and private credit.

Spreads on European emerging market debt have also narrowed as investor concerns about political developments in Russia have subsided and the country's credit rating has been upgraded.

To do this, we trimmed several positions including: corporate bonds, emerging market debt, mortgage REITs and U.S. REITs.

These positions will be followed by fairly equally sized positions in U.S. corporates, S&P 500 buy - write, and emerging market debt at around an 8 % allocation.

Many forces have collided to create this somewhat unusual relationship between commodities, emerging market debt, speculative grade bonds and stocks.

Richard explains why we are upgrading European equities to overweight and downgrading emerging market debt to neutral over the short term.

Some of the recent tactical changes include adjustments to the duration of the three funds in the suite, while maintaining exposure to credit and emerging market debt for potential income.

Against this background of wide payments imbalances, why have the margins for risk in corporate and emerging market debt been so exceptionally low?

Investment grade and emerging market debt spreads are right in line with the historical trend line since 2006.

They often include instruments such as high yield, emerging market debt and other more esoteric instruments that tend to be missing from traditional bond funds.

Investment grade corporate bonds and emerging market debt have benefited from this trend for most of 2016.

Richard explains why we are upgrading European equities to overweight and downgrading emerging market debt to neutral over...

They have shown interest in funds that potentially provide some income or protection from inflation, and investment grade credit, emerging market debt and TIPS benefited from that.

The Bloomberg Barclays Emerging Markets USD Aggregate Index is a flagship hard currency Emerging Markets debt benchmark that includes USD - denominated debt from sovereign, quasi-sovereign, and corporate EM issuers.

We prefer selected subordinated financial debt within European credit and favor high - quality U.S. credit and emerging market debt over government bonds, but credit valuations are elevated across the board.

For example, emerging market debt is up over 10 % year - to - date (Bloomberg data).

Many forces have collided to create this somewhat unusual relationship between commodities, emerging market debt, speculative grade bonds and stocks.

He is responsible for Asia within the Emerging Market Debt team and is also in charge of creating and maintaining quantitative risk and valuation models.

Emerging market debt may well be a good investment, but its potential returns are commensurate with the risks.

That's the same for high yield ETF holdings in emerging market debt.