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Structured Credit (CLOs)

  • AUM $15 billion
    (30 September 2019)
  • Vehicles Available
    • Separate Account
    • Commingled Funds
    • QIF
 

Investment Philosophy

Our structured credit investment philosophy focuses on a detailed understanding of a CLO’s underlying collateral pool and structure, as well as an emphasis on the collateral manager’s impact on performance through the investment process.

Our Value Add

As an active investor in CLOs and CDOs since the early 1990s, we have developed one of the deepest and most experienced teams in the market.

  • Broad Market Perspective: Actively investing in all parts of the CLO capital structure.
  • Manager of Choice: Manages more than $14 billion in structured credit, including more than $13 billion in cash flow CLOs. Barings was also named as a replacement manager for multiple structured credit portfolios.
  • Proprietary Systems: CDO WorldSM, our proprietary database and portfolio management system, provides in-depth access to information.

Portfolio Managers

Adrienne Butler

Adrienne Butler

Kathleen Kraez

Kathleen Kraez

Taryn Leonard

Taryn Leonard

Jeffrey Prince, CFA

Jeffrey Prince, CFA

Melissa Ricco

Melissa Ricco

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    Taryn Leonard and Melissa Ricco, Co-Heads of the Structured Credit investment team, discuss where they're seeing opportunities and risks today—and why technical factors are creating inefficiencies, and hence opportunities, in the current environment.

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  • CLOs: Triple C's and Market Unease

    Taryn Leonard and Melissa Ricco, Co-Heads of Barings’ Structured Credit Investment Team, discuss the recent loan market weakness, and how technical pressures are creating value opportunities in the CLO market.

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  • IG CLOs: Strong Excess Return Potential, Lower Volatility

    IG CLOs can offer investors the benefits of spread pick-up and lower mark-to-market volatility, largely due to underlying collateral performance and structural security. But above all, manager selection is critical—even at the highest-rated tranches.

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  • Structured Credit: Engaging Risk Tactics

    Deal flow remained steady in Q3, keeping primary market spreads range-bound. Against a backdrop of low global interest rates, we have seen increasing investor interest in European CLOs.

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    Michael Freno, Head of Global Markets, shares his view on where value can still be found in fixed income, despite the uncertain current environment—and why investors may need to look beyond traditional indexes in high yield, investment grade and emerging markets debt.

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