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Reaching for yield

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Reaching For Yield In A Low-For-Long World

Historically low interest rates are likely the new norm for the foreseeable future. This backdrop of a low-for-long environment will pose a significant headwind for income-starved institutions around the world. With central banks signaling a likely prolonged low-rate (and in some cases, even negative rates) policy supported by unprecedented asset purchases as a necessary stimulus for growth, investors will be compelled to search for yield across the credit spectrum, and both public and private asset classes such as structured products, private credit, direct lending, and real estate.

Interest rate insights:

The “low-for-long” environment

Aging demographics and market fundamentals have warranted a “low-for-long” interest-rate environment. PGIM Fixed Income’s Chief Investment Strategist, Robert Tipp, CFA, explored this theme back in Q1 2020, emphasized the firm’s long-standing “low-for-long” thesis for global bond markets—which has been a consistent view over multiple market cycles—and discussed the implications for long-term investors.

Consistent historical interest rate forecasts

State of credit markets: downgrades, defaults and opportunities

The extraordinary stimulus unleashed by governments and central banks around the world has stabilized credit markets, tightened spreads, and fueled a liquidity-driven market rally. Can it last? In our Q3 2020 Outlooks PGIM brought together a panel of thought leaders to discuss these topics and a host of others, including where to best find opportunities in the current environment and in the future.

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Next generation of retirement income

One of today’s most significant financial wellness challenges for workers is generating an adequate and sustainable lifetime income in retirement. Given today’s interest rate environment, it’s never been more expensive to generate income for retirement, whether trying to do so with guaranteed or non-guaranteed investments. This will require plan sponsors to rethink participant access to savings, investment, and income-generating strategies that ultimately improve retirement security, and help workers become more retirement-ready by meeting their liabilities and managing key risks.

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IAS Real Assets Research Program

In the face of market volatility and lower-for-even-longer interest rates, return expectations across equities and bonds are at historic lows. Demonstrating the potential to improve diversity and risk-adjusted returns, real assets, such as real estate, farmland, infrastructure, and MLPs, have become an attractive alternative for investors seeking income above the yield of traditional stock-bond portfolios. PGIM’s Institutional Advisory and Solutions (IAS) Real Assets Program provides bespoke research to help clients understand the opportunities real assets can offer as a diversifying asset class, inflation or growth hedge, and return enhancer in multi-asset institutional portfolios.

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Inflation Will Be Muted, Low Rates Are Here to Stay
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Inflation Will Be Muted, Low Rates Are Here to Stay

Mar 26, 2021

David Hunt joins Bloomberg Markets’ “Balance of Power” to share his views on inflation and rates in the long term.

Inflation Will Increase Over the Next Six Months, But Is It Transitory?
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Inflation Will Increase Over the Next Six Months, But Is It Transitory?

Feb 18, 2021

PGIM President and CEO, David Hunt, joined CNBC’s Squawk Box Asia to discuss his outlook for the months ahead.

The Hunt for Yield Intensifies in 2021
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The Hunt for Yield Intensifies in 2021

By David Hunt — Dec 18, 2020

David Hunt, President and Chief Executive Officer, PGIM, joins Bloomberg’s “The close” to discuss the intensifying hunt for yield.

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