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EM corporate debt a 'growth opportunity for schemes'

Naomi Rainey and Natasha Browne explore how pension funds are bucking the trend

20 February 2014 •

Emerging market (EM) corporate debt could offer growth opportunities for schemes, with more resilience than other EM asset classes, Bluebay and Bank of American Merrill Lynch (BoAML) suggest.

Bluebay partner and senior portfolio manager Polina Kurdyavko said EM corporate debt investment continued to grow in 2013, despite it being "the most volatile year in the last five years for the as...

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