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Many institutional investors have allocated increasingly to passive equities in recent years. Indeed, the decade of loose monetary policy since the financial crisis has suited passive strategies. Yet as the economic climate normalises and the potential for volatility rises, Ritu Vohora, investment

Senior credit fund manager, Jamie Hamilton, describes how he applies the strengths of M&G’s extensive and highly experienced teams of credit researchers and portfolio managers as he manages global credit portfolios for our clients.

Although the focus of impact investing strategies can vary across the market – for example, impact investors can prioritise financial return (‘financial first’) or impact (‘impact first’) – we see impact investing as targeting investments that generate a positive environmental or social change, as

Emerging market equities have had an active start to 2018. After a stellar 2017 underpinned by robust corporate earnings, we are optimistic that improving company fundamentals should continue to support the asset class. Matthew Vaight, fund manager, assesses the outlook.

Fund manager, Miles Tym, explains how increases in headline UK inflation do not give us cause for concern. The move is likely largely related to the weakness that sterling experienced in the wake of the Brexit referendum. There is little in the current economic data to suggest that inflation is

M&G participated in a US residential solar transaction. This deal finances a pool of solar panel loans to residential customers in the US who use the loans to purchase rooftop solar panels, benefiting from long-term savings on energy bills from the clean electricity produced by the solar panels.

M&G have provided £115 million in funding for a regeneration project based in the UK as part of a 10-year private placement deal.

Institutional interest in M&G’s distressed credit and special situations strategies points to continued demand for differentiated sources of growth.

Real estate debt is an illiquid investment class suited to long-term investors happy to accept illiquidity as well as capital at risk. It is also crucial that investors understand how their managers are sourcing, structuring and managing loans, as well as assessing the quality of the underlying real

Real estate debt finance, an asset class that has attracted significant institutional capital over the past ten years, in senior debt is currently offering some of the most significant value relative to similarly rated corporate bonds since 2011. Nonetheless, real estate debt is an illiquid