While fixed income investing offers many benefits, low interest rates and a growing pool of potential choices have made finding the right investments more challenging.
With a broad range of fixed income capabilities at our disposal and years of experience, our funds can help you negotiate this new, more complex environment.
We think an active investment approach is more likely to provide a better return over the long term than a passive solution and to help you achieve your investment objectives.
Fixed income markets can be complex and the long-running expertise of our specialist investment managers means they may be able to uncover opportunities that others might miss, whilst protecting capital when needed.
Fixed income is a core strength for our firm and we offer a wide range of strategies including global, regional and emerging markets, corporate debt, and money market funds. We also offer more specialist strategies such as absolute return and hedge funds.
Our priority is ensuring that each one of our independent fixed income teams focuses only on investing, while benefiting from the support of our wider platform.
As with any other investment, investing in fixed income carries risks. It’s therefore important to find an experienced manager to manage these.
Investments in fixed income may be subject to the default/credit risk of issuers, interest rate risk as bond prices move inversely to changes in interest rates, and liquidity risk. Investing in higher-yielding or non-investment grade bonds might mean the risk of the issuer defaulting on the capital repayment is higher.
These strategies could also invest in emerging markets, where investments can be higher risk and more volatile, or denominated in a foreign currency meaning a change in exchange rates could affect their value. They may also use derivatives which carry similar risks, or use leverage. Investments are subject to the risk of material losses resulting from human error, systems failures or the incorrect valuation of the underlying securities.
Past performance is not a guide to future performance. The value and income of an investment can fall as well as rise and you may not get back the amount originally invested.
We have been building our fixed income business since the 1980's, adding to our capabilities to meet client needs.