Emerging Markets Blended Debt

Getting the most out of emerging market debt

Discover what the full EM debt opportunity set can do for you and how best to navigate it.

2 Oct 2023

10 minutes

Grant Webster
Peter Kent
Vivienne Taberer

The fast view

  • Emerging market (EM) debt – spanning FX, local currency, hard currency, and corporate bond markets – is a diverse investment universe underpinned by a wide range of growing economies and companies. But it is under-owned in many portfolios.
  • EM fundamentals are robust and over the next few years, EM economic growth is set to outpace developed-market growth by the widest margin in a decade.
  • The past year’s performance reflects fundamental strength in EM, yet yields across the EM debt asset class remain high. This improves the income profile and return outlook while providing a buffer against future volatility.
  • EM debt provides portfolio diversification benefits and offers active investors a rich hunting ground, given the varied behaviour of individual asset classes across the cycle and the large dispersion across markets that sit within these.
  • A blended EM debt strategy allows investors to benefit from the divergent dynamics across the asset class while also capturing bottom-up selection opportunities across and within markets.

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Authored by

Grant Webster
Portfolio Manager
Peter Kent
Co-Head of Emerging Market Fixed Income
Vivienne Taberer
Investment Director
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