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Opportunities in High Yield, Private Credit and More: AJ Giannone, Allio Capital

Opportunities in High Yield, Private Credit and More: AJ Giannone, Allio Capital

Update: 2025-03-31
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AJ Giannone, the chief investment officer of Allio Capital Management, joins the podcast to discuss why high yield and private credit present compelling opportunities for retail investors — despite the apparently advanced state of the economic cycle.

This podcast was recorded on Monday, March 17, 2025 and was made available to premium subscribers the very next day. For more information on premium subscriptions, visit our Substack.

Not investment advice! Do your own research, make your own decisions.

Content Highlights

    • High yield debt: this does not appear to be a good time to invest in this asset class, especially through listed funds. Or is it? (1:18 );

    • The iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF (HYG) is one way convenient and low-cost way for retail investors to access this asset class (5:05 );

    • Another iShares product, iShares BB Rated Corporate Bond ETF (HYBB) is a so-called ‘smart beta’ approach… (7:43 );

    • The guest is not particularly concerned about a recession, or at least not the performance of high yield should one come to pass. Even then, the default rate should not increase dramatically (9:51 );

    • Private credit is another niche corner of the credit market that has recently been open to retail investors via ETFs VPC and PCMM, among others (12:39 );

    • Background on the guest (22:52 );

    • Some of the macro signals he watches and what they are telling us right now (28:01 );

    • There is still upside in European equities (33:54 );

    • What about the US market? (38:19 )

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Opportunities in High Yield, Private Credit and More: AJ Giannone, Allio Capital

Opportunities in High Yield, Private Credit and More: AJ Giannone, Allio Capital

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