Insights you might have missed this week

Alpha chat, Euro infrastructure, and the U.S. dollar

Explore some of the highest quality insight collected from top asset managers and institutions that you might have missed this week.

High Yield: Alpha, Allocation, and Opportunity (Robeco)

Sander Bus has managed Robeco’s high yield bond portfolio since 1998, steering it through countless market cycles and shocks over more than two decades–together with Robeco’s seasoned high yield team.

Liability Driven Investing: A Multi-Sector Approach (PGIM Fixed Income)

This episode of All the Credit highlights liability-driven strategies in our new sub-series, Credit Markets in Transition.

Platinum Essentials: Effect of U.S. Vehicle Tariffs (WPIC)

This assesses the impact of the U.S.’s emerging trade policies, specifically the new tariffs on vehicle imports and parts. The U.S. is a net importer of vehicles, with ~55% of vehicles sold in the U.S. being made abroad.

CIO Views | Nobody Knows, Yet Again (Oaktree)

We can’t confidently predict the end of the world. We’d have no idea what to do if we knew the world would end. The things we’d do to gird for the end of the world would be disastrous if it didn’t end, and most of the time, the world doesn’t end.

The State of Local Infrastructure Investment in Europe (EIB)

A large and growing share of municipalities and cities say EU financial support is critical to financing future infrastructure investments.

How Doomed Is the Dollar? (State Street)

Will political instability and economic challenges drive the dollar’s decline even further, deepening concerns about the U.S. economy? State Street's experts discuss.

How Screening for Sustainability Affected Equity Indices (BNP Paribas AM)

The effects of adjusting equity indices to exclude worst-ranked stocks based on sustainability-related criteria varies depending on the type and objectives of the screening approach chosen as well as on how we reweight the screened stocks.

Strategic Sector Selector: A Strategist’s Nightmare (Invesco)

Global equities have finally succumbed to increasing levels of uncertainty, delivering negative 2025 Q1 returns as the Trump presidency has revved up.