Emerging Markets Debt Investment Process

  • Discuss medium and long-term investment outlook and define investment framework for all asset classes at monthly Investment Policy meeting
  • Develop overall market perspective by applying Investment Policy framework to Emerging Markets valuation
  • Assess macroeconomic fundamentals, policies, politics and market related factors
  • Determine attractiveness of spreads, currencies, interest rates, curve shapes
  • Analyze corporate fundamentals relative to global industry comparables
  • Determine corporate attractiveness relative to sovereign alternatives
  • Identify relative value across sectors for each country
  • Quantitative approach to determine cheapest securities within a sector
  • Monitor the volatility of active currency, interest rate and credit risks in our portfolio daily (measures which we use as inputs in our risk allocations relative to our benchmarks)