Investment Philosophy
We aim to deliver consistent results that our clients can depend on to meet their risk and return expectations. Rooted in the belief that the volatility of market prices exceeds that of fundamental asset values, we focus on taking advantage of these market dislocations to generate consistent, dependable alpha per unit of risk across all market environments.
Liability Driven Investing (LDI) Strategy Overview
OBJECTIVE
Seeks to design a fully customized Liability-Driven solution tailored to meet client's specific requirements and constraints
BENCHMARK
ICE BofA Custom Q4AS Index
STRATEGY INCEPTION
May 1, 2011
Highlights
- Invests primarily in US dollar-denominated investment grade securities including corporate bonds, and to a lesser extent, US dollar-denominated sovereign debt and US Treasuries and Agencies
- Focuses primarily on security selection and sector selection, and to a lesser extent, country/region selection, duration decision and yield curve structure
- Typically invests in investment grade securities at the time of purchase (BBB- and above); however, the strategy may hold below investment grade securities
- Targets a duration typically less than +/- 0.5 year of the Index
Portfolio Managers
EXPERIENCED TEAM
Clients benefit from a team of seasoned portfolio managers who are collectively responsible for the stewardship of their assets. Working together with credit analysts and traders to filter market information, generate and discuss new investment ideas, the team seeks to identify the best relative value opportunities for our clients.
Our Insights
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The ICE BofA Custom Q4AS Index provides a custom measure of investment grade corporate bonds. It is constructed based on the ICE BofA US Corporate Bond Index with the following components removed: securities with less than 10 years remaining term to final maturity, less than $300M outstanding, BBB- and BBB rated bonds and subordinated debt. It also excludes Tobacco and Controversial Weapons companies. Each issuer is capped to 3% of the benchmark. For comparison purposes, the index is fully invested, which includes reinvestment of income. Benchmark returns are not covered by the report of independent verifiers. The returns for this unmanaged index do not include any management fees or other costs aside from transaction costs, which were incorporated into index returns beginning 1 July 2022.
