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Returns plus Resilience? A Closer Look at Leveraged Finance
Recent years have seen a rapid expansion in the availability of leveraged finance strategies. These multi-sector fixed income strategies blend high yield bonds, leveraged loans and more. They claim to offer three timely advantages in a climate of inflation and rate hikes: diversification, low duration and tactical flexibility.
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How do we define leveraged finance strategies? Leveraged finance strategies are part of the diverse multi-sector fixed income family. Founded on the complementary nature of high yield bonds and leveraged loans, they represent a high-conviction approach to sub-investment grade credit.
What are their main characteristics? Although leveraged finance strategies typically take more credit risk than high yield fixed income strategies, they offer exposure to floating-rate assets and significantly less duration risk (with average duration often less than one year).
How resilient are leveraged finance strategies? Their focus on lower-quality credits might cause investors some concern in a climate of economic difficulty. Yet detailed proprietary analysis shows that these strategies can deliver both downside protection and meaningful upside capture in a variety of different environments.
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Ten years ago, an investor seeking a diversified fixed income solution focused on higher-yielding strategies would have found only a handful of external managers with viable products. Today, following a period of unprecedented investor demand and market growth, we can find a plethora of hybrid, actively managed offerings that combine high yield bonds and leveraged loans in new ways.
In this paper, we use manager peer group analysis to highlight portfolio exposures, performance (including results in particular market conditions) and key differences between offerings. We also compare these strategies to peer groups of standalone high yield and leveraged loan strategies to scrutinise the benefits of combining the two asset classes in one solution.
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