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Emerging Markets Debt Blended Total Return

  • AUM $596 million
    (31 December 2019)
  • Inception Date 2014
  • Benchmark 3M LIBOR + 500bps
  • Vehicles Available
    • UCITS
    • US 40 Act Fund
    • Separate Account
 

Investment Philosophy

The strategy seeks to achieve maximum total return, consistent with preservation of capital and prudent investment management, through high current income generation and, where appropriate, capital appreciation.

Our Value Add

Seasoned emerging markets debt team supported by an extensive platform of proprietary quantitative analysis tools.

  • Experienced Team and Extensive Platform: An experienced portfolio management team, proprietary quantitative models and fundamental analysis tools differentiate Barings from its competitors.
  • Investment Process: Our investment process includes macroeconomic forecasts and bottom-up security selection. Dynamic instrument selection across the EM debt spectrum is agnostic to how individual asset classes perform.
  • Portfolio Construction: Our fundamental bottom-up research, return forecasts and dynamic portfolio construction and monitoring enables us to outperform our peers when macroeconomic fundamentals drive the market.

Portfolio Managers

Dr. Ricardo Adrogué

Dr. Ricardo Adrogué

Cem Karacadag

Cem Karacadag

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