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Emerging Market Debt
Emerging market debt (EMD) is a rapidly evolving asset class that can offer fixed income investors diversification benefits and enhanced yield and return potential.
To meet the variety of risk/return profiles, the EMD universe offers investors a broad spectrum of opportunities from local to hard currency debt, from investment grade to high yield, and from sovereign to corporate debt.
- State Street Global Advisors is leader in EMD investing and a pioneer in indexed EMD. (we launched our first indexed strategy in 2005)
- Today we manage over $24 billion in dedicated EMD portfolios and are among the largest EMD investors in the world.
- We have a solutions-oriented approach and work in partnership with institutional investors to meet their investment objectives.
State Street’s EMD strategies seeks to deliver the performance of the major EMD benchmark indices through the use of sophisticated investment techniques.
With a longstanding track record across the EMD spectrum, we have accumulated deep market insights and expertise into how these markets operate and perform.
We manage a variety of funds and ETFs as well as separately managed accounts that track the performance of the established institutional EMD benchmarks. We have considerable experience partnering with our clients to design custom EMD exposures and strategies that are consistent with their investment objectives and beliefs.
Latest Insights
Global Emerging Markets: Macro Prospects and Challenges
Emerging market (EM) economies have been accounting for the lion’s share of global growth over the past two decades, and with global growth currently slowing, future growth prospects of EM economies assume great importance.
To the Brink and Back : Emerging Market Debt in 2020
The emerging market debt experience in 2020.
Emerging Market Debt Commentary - January 2021
Emerging market debt (in USD terms) experienced a volatile start to the year, with the end result for the month being a modestly negative overall return.