TEI - MSD: Right Time For EM Debt
2025-04-23 08:17:55 ET
Summary
- Emerging Market Debt offers higher spreads and a better risk/return profile compared to developed market debt, making it a valuable portfolio addition.
- Despite past headwinds like a strong USD, EMD's fundamentals are solid, with low default rates and improving sovereign reserves.
- MSD CEF outperforms peers and ETFs, offering a 12% yield with no leverage and a diversified, conservative strategy.
- Given the weakening USD and MSD's superior performance, I rate MSD a Buy and plan to overweight it in my fixed income allocation.
Emerging Market Debt is a generally under-appreciated asset class, which deserves a place in a diversified asset portfolio.
Prices for emerging market debt have been indicating value for several years, but investors have been slow to shift allocations to this category....
MSD: Right Time For EM Debt