Servicing debt from the top of the cash waterfall

Trade finance case study

Direct lending: the power of strategic alliances

Shaking hands

Fast reading Our origination approach is built around a series of bank partnerships that afford us access to some of the most attractive deals in our preferred segment. These co-lending agreements sustain a robust pipeline of high-quality loans, which allows us to take a highly selective approach to the borrowers we choose to lend to, […]

SDG Engagement Equity: 2023 Annual Report

Stone piled on stone

A focus on decent work

Markets soar on summer rate cut hopes

Bank of England at night

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Politics and the investor

Votes pins

Whichever way you cut it, 2024 will be a testing year for some of the world’s biggest democracies. Seven of the world’s ten most populous nations will go to the polls, accounting for a third of global GDP and a quarter of its population (see charts and table below). In May, India’s billion-strong electorate will […]

Your Questions Answered: Unconstrained Credit

What is the argument for using a flexible credit solution at a time when government bonds and higher credits are attractive? There’s a couple of ways to answer that. The first is that I believe it’s just a better reflection of the marketplace that you’re investing in. If you think about it from the point […]

Argentina: A new dawn?

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Six reasons to consider an unconstrained approach to credit

Reason 1: Investors with the ability to manage duration can accommodate even a higher-for-longer scenario Consensus expectations see developed market CPIs coming close to target in 2024 as tight monetary policy constrains activity, unemployment slowly picks up and labour market pressures cool. Developed-market central banks have indicated they see themselves at the peak of the […]

A sort-of Super Tuesday

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What defines a Biodiversity Champion?

Colar reef

Which topics within Biodiversity do you prioritise? In short, all of them! There are five major drivers of biodiversity loss; change in land and sea use, direct exploitation of organisms, invasive alien species, climate change and pollution. We have translated these into our six investment themes which contain numerous industry sub verticals from which we […]