FIXED INCOME

Flexible. Thoughtful. Connected.

Our teams retain flexibility within a disciplined construct, resulting in individual strategies as well as custom-blended solutions – all within a rigorous risk management framework.

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$142.2bn
Fixed Income Assets Under Management

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131
Fixed Income Investment
Professionals

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18
Average Years’ Financial
Industry Experience

As at 30 June 2025

$142.2bn
Fixed Income Assets Under Management

131
Fixed Income Investment
Professionals

18
Average Years’ Financial
Industry Experience

As at 30 June 2025

Investment capabilities benefitting from:

  • A forward-looking approach that looks beyond benchmarks to put investor objectives at its core.
  • Collaborative teams that share and debate ideas globally but retain investment flexibility within a rigorous risk-management framework.
  • A range of actively-managed solutions from core bonds to multi-sector that reflects four decades of addressing clients’ evolving financial needs.

Featured strategies

Collateralised Loan Obligations

Providing exposure to high-quality, floating rate collateralised loan obligations (CLOs), which are designed to offer diversification benefits and low volatility with low downgrade risk.

Global Multi-Sector

A dynamic global bond fund that seeks superior risk-adjusted returns relative to the benchmark over a market cycle.

Global Investment Grade

Our investment grade strategies combine top-down asset allocation with bottom-up, high conviction, ideas generated by our experienced sector specific credit analysts, predominantly focused on investment grade corporate bonds.

Insights

Spread percentiles chart to watch or European investment grade and US investment grade

Chart to watch: Are corporate credit spreads too tight?

The grind tighter in credit spreads has continued unabated. How can investors navigate this environment as uncertainties remain?

The case for a global approach to short-duration fixed income in a new economic regime

Why bond investors need a new playbook to maximize a fixed income allocation’s potential.

A column chart in three colours showing the change in debt as a percentage of GDP since 2019. Orange represents governments, grey represents corporates and blue represents households. The vertical axis is the percentage point change in debt as a percentage of GDP. The horizontal axis represents different countries or regions. In general, the rise in debt has been greatest for governments. Going along the horizontal axis, the first country is mainland China where the figures are a 25% rise in debt as a percentage of GDP for the government, 10.7% fall for corporates and a 4.6% rise for households. The UK the figures are a 15.8% rise in debt for the government, a 4.5% fall for corporates and a 7.0% fall for households. For the US the figures are a 12.6% rise in debt for the government, a 4.5% fall for corporates and a 5.3% fall for households. In the euro area, the figures are a 3.7% rise for government debt, a 6.2% rise for corporates and a 5.8% fall for households. On average there has been a 9% rise in debt for governments, a 2% fall for corporates and a 4% fall for households.

Chart to Watch: Is government debt helping corporate credit?

Exploring the potential interplay between government and corporate debt levels.