Fixed income

U.S. High Yield Bond Strategy

The strategy pursues total return, a high level of current income, and capital appreciation by investing in below-investment-grade debt securities across the credit-quality spectrum and capital structure.

Competitive advantages

Investment horizon

The team uses a six-month investment horizon to anticipate market inflection points.

Thematic levers

The team strategically allocates to a variety of alpha sources across quality grades, duration ranges, market sectors, and capital structures.

Unbiased approach

The team seeks diversified and unbiased sources of alpha in an effort to generate compelling returns over a market cycle.

Composite performance

Average annual returns

Average annual returns

(as of 9/30/2024)
7/1/1996
1M
3M
YTD
1Y
3Y
5Y
10Y
Inception
Composite (Gross)
0.87
3.92
7.26
13.84
3.00
5.18
5.49
7.97
Composite (Net)
0.83
3.80
6.89
13.33
2.46
4.62
4.89
7.37
Benchmark
1.63
5.28
8.03
15.67
3.08
4.53
4.95
6.61

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
11.74
-10.71
6.92
7.50
12.63
-1.93
7.55
15.20
-3.75
4.34
Benchmark
13.47
-11.21
5.35
6.07
14.41
-2.27
7.48
17.49
-4.61
2.51

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 team employs a sector specialist model whereby tenured investment professionals are supported by rigorous credit research to source opportunities across global fixed income markets.

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 Form ADV Part 2.

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*This composite index consists of the ICE BofA U.S. High Yield Master II Unconstrained Index prior to 1 June 2005 and the ICE BofA U.S. High Yield Constrained Index (formerly ICE BofA U.S. High Yield Master II Constrained Index) since 1 June 2005. Copyright 2020. ICE Data Indices, LLC. All rights reserved.