Os gestores de portfólio Tim Elliot e David Huang discutem por que os empréstimos europeus podem estar bem estruturados para resistir a um período de incerteza.
Definições e Notas de Rodapé
1Source: IMF World Economic Outlook, April 2026.Three-month EURIBOR of 2.17% as at 21 April 2026 (European Money Markets Institute); WELLI 3-year discount margin as at 21 April 2026 (S&P/UBS). ECB rate path: eight cuts between June 2024 and June 2025 (ECB); Morningstar, “ECB Holds Interest Rates Steady After Inflation Undershoots,” 5 February 2026. ECB rate hike probability and implied rate path derived from euro overnight index swap (OIS) pricing as at 24 April 2026: 78% probability of a 25bp hike at the June 2026 meeting; approximately 2.5 cumulative hikes priced by March 2027, implied terminal rate approximately 2.58% (Bloomberg WIRP).
2Source: Bloomberg, 2022 returns for S&P/UBS WELLI Index and ICE BofA HPIC Index, total return in euro. Past performance does not predict future returns.
3Source: Janus Henderson Investors, Cyclicality classification is based on Janus Henderson Investors’ internal GDP sensitivity framework, which maps 79 Bloomberg subsectors (DS201 classification) into non-cyclical, semi-cyclical, and highly cyclical buckets according to historical earnings sensitivity to economic growth. Sector weights for EU loans derived from S&P/UBS WELLI sector composition; sector weights for EU high yield derived from ICE BofA HPIC constituent data joined with Janus Henderson’s FVCM bond universe sector classifications. As at 23 April 2026.
4Source: Bloomberg, European high yield represented by ICE BofA HPIC and US high yield represented by ICE BofA H0A0. Percentiles calculated by Janus Henderson Investors using 10 years of data ending 21 April 2026.
5Source: Janus Henderson Investors, S&P/UBS (WELLI by rating, 3-year discount margin; average clean price). ICE BofA HPIC constituents joined with Janus Henderson FVCM bond universe for option-adjusted spread by Moody’s sub-rating (Ba1–Ba3, B1–B3). EU loan data as at 21 April 2026; EU HY sub-rating OAS at 23 April 2026.
6Source: FCA estimate, 11 November 2025. There is no guaranteed that past trends will continue or forecasts will be realised.
7Source: S&P Global Ratings, 2025 record issuance, 21 January 2026, Deutsche Bank estimates, European CLO Monthly, 1 April 2026, AFME, “European High Yield, Leveraged Loan, and Private Credit Report Q4 2025”, CLO economics data from PitchBook LCD, 18 March 2026.There is no guaranteed that past trends will continue or forecasts will be realised.
ICE BofA European Currency Non-Financial High Yield 2% Constrained Index (HPIC) tracks EUR and GBP denominated below investment grade corporate debt publicly issued in the Eurobond, sterling or euro domestic markets (contains non-financial securities with issuer exposure capped at 2%).
ICE BofA US High Yield Index tracks USD denominated below investment grade corporate debt publicly issued in the US domestic market.
WELLI: The S&P/UBS Western European Leveraged Loan Index (formerly Credit Suisse), the primary benchmark for European leveraged loans.
USLLI: The S&P/UBS Leveraged Loan Index measures the market-value weighted performance of the investable universe of USD-denominated leveraged loans.
CLO (collateralised loan obligation): A securitisation vehicle that pools leveraged loans and issues tranches of debt and equity, representing the largest source of demand in the European loan market.
Discount margin (DM): The average spread over the reference rate (typically EURIBOR) that a floating-rate loan is expected to earn over its remaining life, analogous to OAS for fixed-rate bonds. The 3-year DM assumes a 3-year repayment horizon.
EURIBOR: The Euro Interbank Offered Rate, the reference rate for most European leveraged loan coupons.
Option-adjusted spread (OAS): The spread over the government yield curve after adjusting for any embedded optionality, used as a standard measure of credit compensation for fixed-rate bonds.
Percentile: A statistical measure to express where an observation falls in a range of other observations. A 90th percentile data point, for example, is the value below which 90% of data points fall.
Secured loan: A loan where the borrower has promised to give the lender specific assets if they fail to make repayments.
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