Zig When Others Zag: Thoughts on Value Investing

CIO Roundtable: Electionomics in 2024

Opportunity Knocks in Agency Mortgage-Backed Securities

LDI Quarterly Update: 2Q24

Fixed Income Perspectives: Themes for 2H24 – Volatility is a Ladder

Episode 228: Navigating Private Credit and Alts: Insights with Chris Lyons of Voya IM

Chris Lyons is the Head of Private Fixed Income and Alternatives at Voya Investment Management

Power-Hungry AI is a Game Changer for Utilities

CIO Roundtable: Beyond the Magnificent Seven—AI’s Ripple Effect

The race for superintelligence has triggered a spending boom on graphics chips, data centers, power supply and talent. Our panel discusses what it means for investors.

Voya Private Credit Energy & Infrastructure Quarterly Spring 2024: Power Generation’s Wake-Up Call

Voya’s energy experts take a deep dive into the re-awakening of U.S. electricity demand, and what it means for generation, transmission, and grid stability.

Private Credit Insights: The Power Issue

The most interesting angle on AI’s growth for credit investors may well be in energy transition. Here’s why—and how to play it.

Episode 212: Building Flexible Multi-sector Portfolios

Jeffrey Hobbs is the Head of Insurance Portfolio Management at Voya Investment Management.

Mind the (Asset-Liability) Gap… Building Flexible Multi-Sector Portfolios

Private Credit Insights: The Collateral Crunch (and How to Avoid It)

The average middle market fund has less than 26% of its loans in high-collateral deals. Here’s what to do about it.

Episode 201: CMLs in 2024: A repriced market with attractive opportunities?

Greg Michaud is the Head of Real Estate Finance at Voya.

Capital Market Assumptions 2024

The Road Not Taken by Insurance Investors

Where Frost took the road less traveled, we insurance PMs can take two (or more!) roads at once as we forge a path that delivers on our investment objectives.

Private Credit Insights: Every Problem Is an Opportunity in Disguise

Bank lending and deal flow on the decline, economic stress on the rise. It’s a surprisingly good time for private credit.

Energy & Infrastructure Quarterly: Pendulum of Perception

We retrace boom-and-bust periods and chronicle improvements in the credit quality of North American energy companies following the pandemic.

Interest-Only Securities Make a Strong Comeback

Interest-only securities offer attractive, high-single-digit unlevered yields to the market’s base-case prepayment expectation and stand to benefit from significant spread tightening as demand for the asset class increases amid limited supply.

Five Things to Watch in Securitized Credit

The forecast for securitized credit has turned notably brighter in recent months, even as the dark cloud of offices continues to cast a long shadow.

Using FHLBs for Insurance Portfolio Management to Drive Risk-Adjusted Returns

Adding durable, low-cost external leverage to lower-volatility assets via the FHLB system can be an attractive way to enhance risk-adjusted return potential versus owning higher-volatility assets with more embedded leverage directly on insurance company balance sheets.

Insurance themes: A rolling stone gathers no moss

Higher investible yields and elevated volatility have combined to create meaningful opportunities for insurance companies with the willingness and ability to capitalize.

NAIC 1 bonds with 6%+ yields … fear the risk or embrace the opportunity?

SASBs in the industrial, multi-family and life sciences spaces are compelling. Higher-yielding office and retail CMBS aren’t worth the reach … yet.