LGIM Blog - Martin Reeves, Global Head of High Yield

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Martin runs a team of high-yield professionals focused on global opportunities. He joined LGIM in September 2011 from AllianceBernstein, where he worked for 13 years. Martin was a founding director of the European High Yield Association and was Co-Vice Chair of the Association for Financial Markets in Europe’s High Yield Board. He qualified as a chartered accountant with Ernst & Young and gained a MA from St Catharine’s College at the University of Cambridge, where he read Economics.

Other articles by Martin Reeves

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Global high yield… don’t worry, be happy

Investors might prefer to focus on the yields on offer in the asset class, rather than worry about what, we believe, is the misplaced fear of defaults.

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Moving on up: is another ‘goldilocks’ year in store for high yield?

Many investors thought 2023 would be a year of defaults and credit pressure. As it turns out, last year might actually be described as a ‘goldilocks’ period for credit.

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A high yield swallow: the first signs of reopening?

With the global high yield market showing initial signs of a return to some level of issuance, could this be the one swallow that does foretell more summery times ahead?

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A new dawn for high yield investors? Leveraged life in a post-COVID world

COVID and the part-closure of the US high yield market since 2022 has worried investors. Yet a recent meeting with company management highlights grounds for optimism and a new outlook on sustainability.

The challenges of balancing ‘alternative credit’ and liquidity

The challenges of balancing ‘alternative credit’ and liquidity

What are the issues around liquidity when investing for the long term?

Where did all the yield go?

Where did all the yield go? High-yield bonds can still have a role to play in investors’ search for income

Global high yield: more of the same

Global high yield: more of the same

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Trick or treat? 13 charts that must be Halloween

Trick or treat? 13 charts that must be Halloween

US midterms: Trumponomics may trump politics

Americans go to the polls on 6 November in a vote widely seen as a referendum on Donald Trump, the most controversial US president in living memory. What could be the implications for high yield investors?

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