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Thomas Haugaard

Portfolio Manager

Thomas Haugaard is a Portfolio Manager on the Emerging Markets Debt Hard Currency (EMD HC) Team at Janus Henderson Investors. Prior to joining the firm in 2022, he was a senior portfolio manager at Danske Bank Asset Management (DBAM) where he contributed toward the launch of the EMD HC strategy and served on the EMD HC team from 2013. Before that, he was a senior economist at Svenska Handelsbanken, responsible for emerging markets research, focusing on China and Latin America from 2006. Earlier, he was an economist at Danmarks Nationalbank (the Danish Central Bank) for two years. Thomas has been an external lecturer in economics at the University of Copenhagen.

Thomas received BSc and MSc degrees in economics from the University of Aarhus, specialising in financial crisis theory, applied international economics and econometrics. He has 20 years of financial industry experience.

Articles Written

Tailwinds for Emerging Markets debt
Timely & Topical

Tailwinds for Emerging Markets debt

Hard currency EM debt continues to offer investors attractive carry/yield opportunities, although with spreads having tightened, further upside in 2024 will likely be more country specific.

Market access improving for EM debt issuers
Timely & Topical

Market access improving for EM debt issuers

After struggling to access international financing for almost two years, several sub-Saharan African countries are now again enjoying bond market access.

Emerging markets debt: brighter prospects ahead as the storm passes
Timely & Topical

Emerging markets debt: brighter prospects ahead as the storm passes

Amid continued global economic uncertainty, the outlook for emerging markets is looking relatively brighter.