By Gerhardt (Gary) P. Herbert, CFA, Portfolio Manager and Head of Global Credit, and Reina Berlien
As global bond investors, analyzing economic indicators is like second nature to us. However, political risk has become a prevalent factor in both local and hard currency sovereign bond valuations over the last several years. Since we already evaluate price and information risk, there could be merit in reviewing traditionally quantitative factors through a qualitative lens, at least when it comes to political risk. We've read some compelling research about the effect political risk has on asset prices. For