Viewpoints

The Barings Structured Credit and Direct Lending teams explain what it took to price the market’s first European middle market CLO.

A core asset class for insurance balance sheets throughout the economic cycle.

High yield bonds and loans remain fundamentally sound, with attractive breakevens and a solid margin of safety against default losses. With further volatility likely, we expect both challenges and opportunities to emerge.

The uncertainty characterizing today’s investment landscape makes a strong case for staying up in both quality and liquidity—and while there can also be value in volatility, careful manager and credit selection are key.

CEO & Chairman Mike Freno recently sat down with Financial News in London. Mike spoke about how private markets are in Barings’ DNA, and how any future M&A activity involving Barings is likely to be used to bolster its current range by offering adjacent strategies.

Barings' Head of Global CLOs, Adrienne Butler, retraces the history of the CLO asset class from its emergence in the late-1990s through the trials of the GFC and onto the most recent innovations including private credit and infrastructure debt CLOs.

Trevor Slaven and Ben Gillingham of Barings’ Multi-Asset Strategy & Allocation team explore how investors can manage risk and capitalize on opportunities in this analysis of the Trump administration’s announced tariffs and their resulting impact on global economies and markets.

In this Q&A, Michael Searles explains why capital solutions strategies continue to gain attention despite the current uncertain backdrop and looming maturity wall.

Dadong Yan, Head of Portfolio Finance, spoke with Private Debt Investor about Barings’ portfolio finance strategy, which provides insurance companies and other institutional investors access to first-lien, investment grade private credit, while seeking to preserve capital and generate alpha.