Awards & Recognition
Best Places to Work in Money Management 2023, 2024 & 2025 | North America | Winner
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AsianInvestor
Asian Private Banker
Benchmark
Bloomberg Businessweek/Chinese Edition
Citywire Asia
Fund Selector Asia
InsuranceAsia News
LSEG Lipper Fund Awards
Pensions & Investments
Private Debt Investor
Morningstar/Smart Magazine Taiwan Fund Award
The Asset Triple A Sustainable Investing Awards
Disclosures
- AsianInvestor
Asset Class Award for High Yield Bond in AsianInvestor Asset Management Awards 2024, 2025 and 2026 were assessed with 80% weighting based on the overall performance of the strategy and 20% based on the portfolio management under prevailing market, macro and geopolitical landscape, for the period from January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2023, from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2024 and from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2025, respectively.
- Asian Private Banker
Best Fund Provider—High Yield Bond —Global in Asian Private Banker Asset Management Awards for Excellence 2026 by Asian Private Banker, reflecting product performance, asset gathering, service quality and fund selectors feedback over the one-year period to August 31, 2025.
Highly Commended—High Yield Bond—Global in Asian Private Banker 12th Asset Management Award for Excellence 2025 was issued by Asian Private Banker, reflecting product performance, business performance and service quality over the one-year period to August 31, 2024.
Best Fund Provider - High Yield Bond in Asian Private Banker Asset Management Award for Excellence 2024 was issued by Asian Private Banker, reflecting product performance, business performance and service quality over the one-year period to August 31, 2023.
- Benchmark
Based on the annualized return, sortino ratio and ESG score over the one-year and three-year periods performances to September 30, 2023.
- Bloomberg Businessweek/Chinese Edition
Global High Yield—Outstanding Performer—Mutual Funds over 1 year in Bloomberg Businessweek (Chinese Edition) Top Fund Awards 2024 (Hong Kong) was based on the fund performance (Barings Global High Yield Bond Fund—Tranche F USD Acc) between October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2024. Tranche F shares are not intended to be offered to the retail public.
Equity—ASEAN—Best Performer over 5 years in Bloomberg Businessweek (Chinese Edition) Top Fund Awards 2024 (Hong Kong) was based on the fund performance between October 1, 2019 to September 30, 2024.
Global High Yield—Outstanding Performer—Mutual Funds over 5 years in Bloomberg Businessweek (Chinese Edition) Top Fund Awards 2024 (Hong Kong) was based on the fund performance (Barings Global High Yield Bond Fund—Tranche F USD Acc) between October 1, 2019 to September 30, 2024. Tranche F shares are not intended to be offered to the retail public.
Equity—ASEAN—Best Performer over 10 years in Bloomberg Businessweek (Chinese Edition) Top Fund Awards 2024 (Hong Kong) was based on the fund performance between October 1, 2014 to September 30, 2024.
Equity—China—Outstanding Performer over 10 years in Bloomberg Businessweek (Chinese Edition) Top Fund Awards 2024 (Hong Kong) was based on the fund performance between October 1, 2014 to September 30, 2024.
- Citywire Asia
Based on the quantitative data from Citywire ratings, plus qualitative research from interviews with key industry gatekeepers and fund selectors from across Asia, as of 30 June 2025.
- Fund Selector Asia
High Yield—Gold award in Fund Selector Asia Fund Awards for Hong Kong 2026 was based on alpha, volatility, consistency of performance over the three-year period as of September 30, 2025, together with fund selector choices (Barings Global High Yield Bond Fund—Tranche G USD Acc).
Fixed Income House of the Year—Hong Kong in Fund Selector Asia (FSA) Awards 2024 and 2026 were decided by FSA and based on the pitching submissions including (but not limited to) competitive advantage, investment process and fund performance over the one-year period to September 30, 2023 and September 30, 2025 respectively.
- InsuranceAsia News
Based on Barings’ performance over the preceding calendar year of the respective year of the award. The awards recognize the best in the industry and reward their pioneering efforts, innovation and commitment.
- LSEG Lipper Fund Awards
Best Fund over 3 years—Bond Global High Yield USD in LSEG Lipper Fund Awards Hong Kong 2025 was based on the Lipper Leader for Consistent Return rating, which is a risk-adjusted performance measure calculated over the three-year period as of December 31, 2024.
Best Fund over 5 years—Bond Global High Yield USD in LSEG Lipper Fund Awards Hong Kong 2025 is based on the Lipper Leader for Consistent Return rating, which is a risk-adjusted performance measure calculated over the five-year period as of December 31, 2024.
- Pensions & Investments
Pensions & Investments partnered with Best Companies Group, a research firm specializing in identifying great places to work, to conduct a two-part survey process of employers and their employees. The first part consisted of evaluating each nominated company’s workplace policies, practices, philosophy, systems and demographics. That part of the process was worth approximately 25% of the total evaluation. The second part consisted of an employee survey to measure the employee experience. The survey was worth approximately 75% of the total evaluation. The combined scores determined the top companies.
- Private Debt Investor
The 2023 Private Debt Investor Global Award winners are determined by the readers of the PDI publication. The PDI global editorial team canvasses the views of colleagues and contacts in the market to find out which firms, funds and deals stood out from the crowd, then provides a shortlist of 4 managers for each category. Readers then cast votes for the winner.
- Morningstar/Smart Magazine Taiwan Fund Award
The selected funds must be approved for sale in Taiwan for more than 1 year. The scoring is based on the short-term, medium-term and long-term performance and risks as of December 31, 2023. The performance and risk scores are added up, and the one with the lowest score is the winner.
- The Asset Triple A Sustainable Investing Awards
Based on Barings’ performance over the preceding calendar year of the respective year of the award.