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Apr 2024
18m 29s

A New Perspective for Credit Investors

J.P. Morgan Asset Management
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Today’s credit markets offer investors an unprecedented range of risk and return opportunities, but also greater complexity that makes it challenging to allocate capital efficiently. In this special edition SIAG episode, David Lebovitz, Global Strategist, Multi-Asset Solutions, talks with Samrawit Soquar, Global Head of Research, Global Fixed Income, Currency & Commodities Group, and Brian Coleman, Head of Private Credit Strategies, about the public credit spectrum, including the convergence of investment grade and high yield, the growth of private credit and direct lending, and what investors can do to take advantage of shifting market conditions.

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