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Royal London AM has poached Will Nicoll, M&G’s CIO for private and alternative assets, as head of private assets, a newly created role.

The end of the easy-cash era is over and its impact yet to be felt on world markets, hopeful that the pain of aggressive rate hikes and high inflation has ..

Distress levels in European real estate are at the highest in a decade, in part because of a decline in liquidity.

Almost $175 billion of real estate credit is already distressed.

Distress levels in European real estate are at the highest in a decade

Multiple stress points are emerging in credit markets after years of excess -- from banks stuck with piles of buyout debt and a pension blowup in the U.K., to real estate troubles in China and South Korea.

It’s all adding up to the biggest test of the robustness of corporate credit since the financial crisis.

The strains in the credit market are largely linked to aggressive rate increases by the Federal Reserve and central banks around the world.

M&G has purchased a majority stake in Swiss emerging market impact investor Responsability Investments, in the second major strategic purchase in as many days.

M&G Will Nicoll believes the focus on emerging trends is not new but the louder discussion doesn’t mean they are viable for established players.