Active fixed income
Tackling the fixed income market with an active mindset for long-term outcomes
Overview
Fixed income can provide a rich environment for opportunities, provided you know where to look. We tackle the fixed income market with an active mindset, believing that opportunities can always be uncovered through collaboration and insight. What’s more, as part of our purpose to create a better future through responsible investing, we collectively engage with companies and governments through LGIM’s unified fixed income, equity and investment stewardship teams to strive for better outcomes, both for investors and our rapidly changing world.
Active fixed income at LGIM
Our edge in active investing lies in our conviction that collaborative teams of experts can deliver better outcomes for investors by focusing on alpha generation and sustainability. Discover more about what makes us different below.
Diversification
We believe that consistency of returns is important across all fixed income markets, and we have a strong track record of diversifying risk in our portfolios since the early 1970s. Using diversified portfolios of traditional bonds to generate alpha in a risk managed approach, we are able to respond nimbly to opportunities when they arise, all while aiming to deliver performance over multiple market cycles.
Expertise
We bring together the best of LGIM’s expertise across a trinity of fixed income, equity and investment stewardship to collaboratively identify long-term fixed income themes and risks through the lens of sustainability. This collaborative approach also empowers fund managers to delegate management of specialist asset classes to sector experts in a risk-balanced way.
Sustainability
In line with our purpose to create a better future through responsible investing, we aim to incorporate sustainability considerations consistently across our product range using a range of techniques. Our Global Research & Engagement Groups – described in more detail below – draw on LGIM’s Active View ESG scoring tool, engagement activities and proprietary frameworks for aligning to Net Zero and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Responsible Investing
In line with our purpose to create a better future through responsible investing, all of our strategies aim to benefit from LGIM’s broader ESG integration and active engagement. We also offer strategies which more specifically target better long-term outcomes:
All active strategies portfolios
- Engage with companies for positive change through our Global Research and Engagement Groups (GREGs)
- Focus on ESG as a financial risk at the sector and issuer level
UN SDG aligned portfolios
- Seeking positive outcomes through targeted alignment to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Framework
- Exclusion of negatively aligned companies and governments
Climate aligned portfolios
- Decarbonisation objectives based on our proprietary LGIM Destination@Risk model
- Targeting temperate alignment of 1.5C by 2030, consistent with a net zero target by 2050
Strategies
We offer access to a wide variety of active fixed income strategies that cover the full range of potential client needs and can be used independently or together as part of a broader solution. Our capabilities include but are not limited to:
Global high yield
A strategy investing across a global universe of high yield bonds
*Source: LGIM internal data as at 30 June 2024. The AUM disclosed is shown on the basis of client direct investments and excludes any double count from fund of fund holdings.
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Further reading
Q4 2024 Active Fixed Income Outlook: America decides
Global central banks have begun cutting rates – but the chief market determinant is sure to be (another) generationally consequential US election.
October 2024: Active Fixed Income at a Glance
Our monthly AFI at a Glance short report covers the credit scores, strategy positioning and concise investment views of the Active Fixed Income team.
Fixed Income in focus: Euro Credit
For the latest in our quarterly series of updates on the global fixed income market, LGIM’s Head of Euro Credit Marc Rovers gives us a detailed briefing on where the European debt market is, and where it may be heading.
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Key risks
The value of an investment and any income taken from it is not guaranteed and can go down as well as up, you may not get back the amount you originally invested. Past performance is no guarantee of future results.
Whilst LGIM has integrated Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) considerations into its investment decision-making and stewardship practices, this does not guarantee the achievement of responsible investing goals within funds that do not include specific ESG goals within their objectives.
The risks associated with each fund or investment strategy should be read and understood before making any investment decisions. Further information on the risks of investing in this fund is available in the prospectus at. http://www.lgim.com/fundcentre