Strategy
Investment Approach
- Seek to generate consistent performance over benchmark by exploiting inefficiencies in the full universe of the global fixed income markets:
- Focus on successful alpha generation and the importance of effective risk management.
- Alpha generation classified under three main performance activities:
- Currency Management: 35% Expected contribution to value added
- Country/Duration Management: 35% Expected contribution to value added
- Sector Allocation/Issue selection: 30%
Portfolio Construction
- Currency limit: maximum +/- 40% relative to benchmark
- Weighted duration limit: maximum +/- 3 years relative to benchmark
- Sub-investment grade: maximum 20%
- Allocation to any corporate bond issuer limited to 5%
- Above investment grade: not restricted (includes corporates and emerging markets)
- Portfolio holdings: typically between 400 and 600 issuers
- Expected average credit quality: A- or better
- Target average tracking error: Between 150 basis points and 300 basis points per annum.
Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance.
Risks
- ABS/MBS risk
- Contingent convertible bond risk
- Credit risk
- Currency risk
- Default risk
- Derivatives risk
- Emerging markets risk
- Interest rate risk
- Issuer concentration risk
- Liquidity risk
- Prepayment and extension risk
- Sector concentration risk
- Capital risk
- Counterparty risk
- ESG and Sustainability risk
- Geographic concentration risk
- Hedging risk
- Investment portfolio risk
- Management risk
- Operational risk