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Total return bonds

Key features

  1. A flexible management approach across a highly diversified investment universe comprising a broad range of bond segments and currencies
  2. A wide range of geographical regions - euro area/Europe, world, emergings
  3. A responsible approach incorporating non-financial criteria into our securities selection

Our strengths

  • target

    Opportunistic Management

    Our all-weather, opportunity-driven and non-benchmarked approach across a broad investment universe adapts to tackle all market conditions.

  • process

    A disciplined investment process

    We follow a stringent investment process, with a quarterly allocation committee to set out our risk-return ratio target and allocation between strategies prior to selecting the best investment ideas.

  • idea

    A team-based brainstorming approach

    We take a collegial approach to driving ideas as we rely on the diversity and full depth of resources in our bond management team, involving bond strategists, credit analysts, specialist portfolio managers and financial engineers.

Our investment team

  • Alexandre Caminade

    Alexandre Caminade

    CIO Core Fixed Income & Liquid Alternatives
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Further reading

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INSIGHTS MARKETS
The covered bond asset class: an attractive investment compared to other high-quality liquid assets
Covered bonds are an essential financing instrument for banks in the euro area. ECB monetary tightening affects the covered bond market directly with the unwinding of CBPP3  holdings and indirectly with the TLTRO  repayment (freeing covered bond collateral). Mortgage loans are the main collateral for covered bonds. Housing has been hit by higher rates so that bank lending to households for house purchase shrunk. Covered bond supply should slow reflecting declining lending flows. Covered bond spreads tend to compare favorably to other similarly low-risk asset classes.
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04/26/2024
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INSIGHTS MARKETS
Diversification, the Blind Spot of Equity Markets
In 2023, equity markets experienced a significant shift with the outperformance of Growth and Cyclical segments, driven by factors such as resilient economic activity, decreasing inflation, and expanded valuation multiples due to the surge in sentiment around generative AI.
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04/17/2024
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04/16/2024

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