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How is investment in government bonds compatible with an ESG approach?

High yield bonds’ powerful income-generating qualities have helped drive strong investment returns over the long term. With evidence that we have entered a structurally lower-default world, we think the asset class remains an attractive source of income and well-placed to generate further robust returns over the coming years. We believe M&G, with long-running expertise in high yield investing and relying on an in-house team of credit analysts, is well-positioned to capture the compelling opportunities that can be found across high yield bonds.

In this month’s video, Investment Specialist, Kirsty Clark looks at the prospects for the euro area in 2019, as the region embarks on its most accommodative fiscal policy of the last decade.

For a quick snapshot of the equity market over the past month and our latest theme, please download our Equities market perspective noteEquities market perspective note.

The M&G (Lux) Global Listed Infrastructure Fund invests beyond the traditional sphere of 'economic' infrastructure (utilities, energy, transport), diversifying into the 'social' (health, education, civic) and 'evolving' (communication, transactional, royalty) categories of the asset class.