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Why global credit?

Rising yields and widening spread dispersion have created a compelling market opportunity

Substantially higher global fixed income yields provide the potential for meaningful returns for the first time in over a decade.

Read our latest insight: Why now for global credit?

Volatility creates wider spread dispersion stimulating more opportunities for value capture through issue selection.¹

Features of the global credit market that create compelling opportunities

Why Insight for global credit?

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Decisions on credit, not interest rates, have been the key driver of our outperformance since our global credit strategy began in 2011.

Our globally located team allows us to confidently invest across a wide universe, enhancing our capacity to seek greater relative value opportunities and avoid regional biases.

Our focus is on achieving outperformance through investment grade bonds. We seek to maintain a high overall credit quality for the portfolio, while carefully applying and tightly controlling exposures to riskier market segments.

Why invest in global credit

We are seeing one of the best entry points in a decade for global investment grade credit. Yields are at levels close to long term returns on equities. While interest rates are expected to decline, which will increase the value of bonds. Adam Whitelely, Head of Global Credit at Insight, explains.

A consistent process generating long-term returns through both rising and falling markets

Able to exploit market volatility

Insight’s global credit strategy has been able to exploit market volatility⁵

Default-free strategy since inception

Our rigorous credit analysis, landmine checklist and ‘units of risk’ mechanism have helped us avoid all of the 17 defaults that have occurred since 2011.⁴