Fixed income

Fixed Income Closed-End Fund Strategy

The strategy pursues long-term outperformance and uncorrelated alpha versus the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index by balancing a disciplined, quantitative, model-driven approach with thorough qualitative research.

Products offered
  • Separate Account

Competitive advantages

Unique source of alpha generation

The team capitalizes on market inefficiencies and discounts driven by fear and greed.

Repeatable investment process

A proprietary quantitative model enhanced by experience and sound judgment allows the team to exploit volatile discounts.

“Deep discount” investing

The team’s model is built to capitalize on the tendency of CEF shares to trade at discounts to NAV following an IPO, so they’re paying 85¢ for $1.00 of assets.

Reactive—not predictive—investing

Eliminating dependence on forecasting and pro-forma estimates.

Structural advantages

The team invests through the market cycle, creating a stable pool of assets under management.

Sell discipline

The sell signal is clearly defined and driven by discounts; the team sells near or above parity to NAV.

Composite performance

Average annual returns

Average annual returns

(as of 9/30/2024)
10/1/1994
1M
3M
YTD
1Y
3Y
5Y
10Y
Inception
Composite (Gross)
1.80
5.83
8.85
17.48
0.15
2.48
3.66
7.58
Composite (Net)
1.76
5.73
8.53
17.01
-0.25
2.07
3.25
7.19
Benchmark
1.34
5.20
4.45
11.57
-1.39
0.33
1.84
4.68

Performance is historical and does not guarantee future results. For more information, please refer to the GIPS composite report found in the documents section.


Calendar year

Calendar year

2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
Composite (Gross)
7.13
-14.51
2.38
9.33
14.53
-3.16
5.55
6.82
2.36
6.42
Composite (Net)
6.70
-14.85
1.97
8.89
14.08
-3.55
5.13
6.39
1.96
6.00
Benchmark
5.53
-13.01
-1.54
7.51
8.72
0.01
3.54
2.65
0.55
5.97

Performance is historical and does not guarantee future results. For more information, please refer to the GIPS composite report found in the documents section.


Our team
Meet the investment team

The Closed-End Fund Strategies team draws on decades of expertise to provide clients with uncorrelated alpha and long-term outperformance. 

Key risks

Market risk: Security markets are volatile and may decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, regulatory, political, or economic developments with different sectors of the market and different security types reacting differently to such developments.

Debt securities risk: Debt securities are subject to both credit and interest rate risk. Credit risk is the possibility that the issuer or guarantor of a debt security may be unable, or perceived to be unable or unwilling, to pay interest or repay principal when they become due, and credit risk increases as an issuer’s credit quality or financial strength declines. Interest rate risk is the possibility that interest rates will change over time such that when interest rates rise, the value of debt securities tends to fall and the longer the terms of the debt securities held the greater the impact of this risk.

High yield risk: If a strategy invests in high yield securities (commonly known as junk bonds), these securities are considered speculative and have a much greater risk of default or of not returning principal and their values tend to be more volatile than higher-rated securities with similar maturities.

Foreign securities risk: If a strategy invests in the securities of non-U.S. issuers, these investments may be subject to lower liquidity, greater price volatility, and risks related to adverse political, regulatory, market, or economic developments and may be affected by changes in foreign currency exchange rates.

Investors should know that this strategy deployed may be subject to additional investment risks. For important information about the investment manager, please refer to the investment manager’s Form ADV Part 2, which is available upon request.

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