The Global Search for Yield and Income in a World of Uncertainty (Hubbis) With so much of the world's highest quality sovereign and quasi-sovereign fixed income submerged in negative yield territory and with the ongoing global pandemic having devastated many of the economic, fiscal, credit and equity market assumptions that analysts and investors had held in early 2020, how, with 2021 around the corner, should Asia's wealthy private clients, re-configure their portfolios in their quest for income and yield? What role should fixed income, or possibly private debt in various forms, play? And what role should equity and dividends play, either public or private? The search for income was the topic of a lively and insightful Hubbis round table and thought leadership discussion that took place on a virtual basis on December 1. The event was exclusively supported by our co-host, the Singapore-headquartered independent investment management firm Lighthouse Canton, who also highlighted their own-brand trade finance fund opportunity that, they reported, offers appealing returns balanced with careful, studied, construction.....
