Viewpoints

While Chinese equities have faced increasing scrutiny, we believe the long-term case for the asset class remains compelling—supported by technological advancement, policy support, a resurgent consumer, and attractive current valuations.

While IG credit overall looks compelling today, we believe there are four distinct areas of inefficiencies in credit markets that present an opportunity to generate alpha.

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.

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.

Favorable demographics, combined with a number of unique investment themes, are creating a positive backdrop for ASEAN’s equity markets.

With rates and volatility likely to remain front-and-center in the months ahead, there is a case to be made for both high yield bonds and loans.

Against a shifting macro, political and geopolitical backdrop, our fixed income portfolio managers explore the future prospects for high yield, emerging markets debt, and investment grade credit.

With major central banks having started their rate-cutting cycles, and domestic tailwinds supporting individual regions, there is a compelling case for Asian equities.

Targeted policy support in China and the start of the Fed’s rate-cutting cycle are supportive for the outlook on Hong Kong-China equities—but domestic and global uncertainties remain.