Muzinich & Co

Emerging market debt has gained more than 15% in 2016, outperforming all other major asset classes and markets, and confounding the roundly pessimistic expectations at the start of the year.

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The 'growth gap' between emerging and developed markets is widening in the former's favour and emerging markets are expected to grow by a robust 4.5% this year, according to Muzinich's Warren Hyland.

Last year a mini-tornado blew through energy markets as oil prices tumbled. This swept up many firms at the heart of the US fracking boom that had grown through high yield debt. The wider high yield market took a fair bit of collateral damage.

Europe's recovery remains choppy, slow and fragile, yet as long as it can be maintained, European high yield debt is an attractive option for investors, according to Muzinich & Co's Erick Muller.

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