Our Buy and Maintain credit strategies aim to deliver a sustainable stream of income over a long investment horizon to match cashflow requirements of insurers, defined benefit pensions schemes and other institutional investors.
Combined years experience of portfolio managers of our Buy and Maintain credit strategies
Analysts in the public credit research team
Over 85% of the global investment grade corporate bond market covered, based on value
Our Buy and Maintain strategies focus on capturing the credit risk premium from investment grade issuers through well-diversified portfolios that span across a range of geographies, sectors, and issuers, while aiming to avoid defaults and minimising turnover.
The team invest in high-quality corporate bonds on a hold to maturity basis to enhance yield compared to cash or government bonds whilst targeting a fixed cashflow profile. To mitigate risk concentration we apply limits to ensure that our clients are not overexposed at the issuer, sector or geographic levels.
Our global credit research team is aligned to the objectives of our Buy and Maintain portfolios. Every bond in the portfolio is fully underwritten on its issuer’s creditworthiness by an experienced credit research analyst to seek to minimise the risk of defaults. We also fully integrate sustainability considerations into the research process. This has included the adoption of SFDR Article 81 standards and a proprietary net zero protocol.
Our strategies are highly diversified in structure with continuous monitoring of credit fundamentals to proactively get ahead of potential risks.
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