Pioneer Investments: The outlook for credit

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Professional Pensions editor-in-chief Jonathan Stapleton talks to Pioneer Investments head of US credit Michael Temple about the outlook for the credit market.

In this video, Temple discusses current opportunities and risks in the credit market; talks about how schemes hedge risks in a credit portfolio and looks at what sort of downside protection can they achieve; and questions how important is it to have the ability to invest across the credit market in the current economic environment.

In addition he also talks about what he believes schemes should look for when choosing a multi-asset credit manager.

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