bfinance: New report on Emerging Market Debt: Extracting Potential Amidst Complexity
According to bfinance, investor opinions on Emerging Market (EM) Debt are strongly divided.
'For some institutional investors, this asset class has become a standard allocation; since the institutionalisation of the market around the year 2000, EM debt has been included in many portfolios as a source of diversification and extra return. Others, however, place EM debt on the periphery of their investment policy, due to the perception that the category is volatile, complex and difficult to justify within strategic asset allocation frameworks.'
Against the backdrop of broader macroeconomic shifts – including changes in the role of the United States and the US dollar – approaches to this category are in some cases being reconsidered, both in terms of the size of the allocation and the nature of the strategies used.
The appendix contains a report by bfinance entitled Emerging Market Debt: Extracting Potential Amidst Complexity, which describes recent trends and approaches within the emerging market debt market. The report was written by Mathias Neidert, Managing Director, Fixed Income.
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