Strategy
Investment Approach
- Focus primarily on sovereign debt denominated in the currencies of the respective emerging countries.
- Integrate proprietary credit research and relative value analysis.
- Establish independent credit rating by country.
- Add value through active country, currency and individual security selection decisions.
- Limit risk through diversification.
- Employ long-term investment horizon combined with low portfolio turnover.
Portfolio Construction
- Higher concentration portfolio structure: typically 100-150 securities
- Duration bands: managed within +/- 2 years of the benchmark
- Average Credit Quality: BBB
- Country exposure maximum 30% per country
- Target tracking error: 200-400 bps
Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance.
Risks
- Contingent convertible bond risk
- Country risk (Russia and Ukraine)
- Credit risk
- Currency risk
- Default risk
- Derivatives risk
- Emerging markets risk
- Frontier markets risk
- High yield bond risk
- Interest rate risk
- Issuer concentration risk
- Liquidity risk
- Sector concentration risk
- Capital risk
- Counterparty risk
- ESG and Sustainability risk
- Geographic concentration risk
- Hedging risk
- Investment portfolio risk
- Management risk
- Operational risk