POWER OF ATTORNEY

	I, the undersigned Trustee of Barings Short Duration High Yield Fund (the
"Trust"), hereby severally constitute and appoint each of Duncan Robertson,
Carlene Pollock, Melissa LaGrant, Janice M. Bishop, Annie Malloy, Jessica
Restivo, Daniel Newell, Kristin Goodchild, Michelle Manha, Brian D. McCabe, and
Gregory D. Sheehan and each of them singly, with full powers of substitution and
  resubstitution, my true and lawful attorney, with full power to him to sign
for me, and in my name and in the capacities indicated below, any Registration
Statement of the Trust on Form N-2, any and all subsequent Post-Effective
Amendments to such Registration Statement, any and all supplements or other
instruments in connection therewith, any subsequent Registration Statements for
the same offering which may be filed under Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act
of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), any and all Forms 3, 4, and 5 in
accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended
(the "Exchange Act"), and the rules thereunder, and Section 30(h) of the
Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the "1940 Act"), and any and all
agreements, documents and other instruments required or permitted to be filed
pursuant to the Securities Act, the Exchange Act, the 1940 Act, the Investment
Advisers Act of 1940, as amended, the Commodities Exchange Act, as amended,
and/or the Federal Securities Laws (as that term is defined in Rule 38a-1 under
the 1940 Act), and the rules thereunder (collectively, the "Securities and
Commodities Laws"), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other
agreements, documents and other instruments in connection therewith, with the
appropriate regulatory body including, but not limited to, the Securities and
Exchange Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and the
securities regulators of the appropriate states and territories, and generally
to do all such things in my name and on my behalf in connection therewith as
such attorney deems necessary or appropriate to comply with the Securities and
Commodities Laws and all related requirements, granting unto such attorney full
power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite or
necessary to be done in connection therewith, as fully to all intents and
purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all
that such attorney lawfully could do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

I acknowledge that the attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at my
request, are not assuming, nor is any Trust assuming, any of my responsibilities
to comply with the Securities and Commodities Laws.  This Power of Attorney
shall remain in full force and effect until I earlier revoke it in a signed
writing delivered to the attorneys-in-fact.




By:  Cynthia Plouche		Date:  August 3, 2017