Two Factors: Volatility and Credit Spread To achieve better security selection, we chose two factors that empirically have demonstrated a strong relationship between factor exposure and performance statistics and that have long been incorporated in investment analysis by
corporate bond portfolio managers.
The strategies developed by the group help shape portfolio positioning for dedicated
US Corporate Bond Portfolios, as well as the corporate bond holdings in US Core Bond Plus, Core Bond, Long, and Intermediate Bond portfolios.
Canso is known as a specialty manager
of corporate bond portfolios and our mandates have produced superior results (1) since the firm was founded in 1997.
«The change is subject to a cap on investments in «A» rated bonds to be not more than 10 per cent of the
overall corporate bond portfolio of the pension funds,» it said.
After identifying value and low volatility as factors that can effectively explain the return and volatility of an investment -
grade corporate bond portfolio, we proposed a two - factor model to capture the security selection process of active corporate bond managers.
He is a member of the Investment Committee, a generalist portfolio manager and the global head of
corporate bond portfolio management, with oversight for the firm's investment grade, high yield, bank loan, municipal and insurance business as well as credit research.
Every investor will have days where they will have their head in their hands, like I did managing the
huge corporate bond portfolio in September 2002, where I said to the high yield manager one evening as we were leaving work, «This can't keep going on like like this, right?
In this case
the corporate bond portfolio may rise less (or decline more) in value than the hedge offered by the short treasury position.
Prior to joining the firm in 2014, Loren was
a corporate bond portfolio manager and investment - grade corporate trader at Goldman Sachs Asset Management (2010 — 2014).
As a US
corporate bond portfolio manager and chair of the US Corporate Bond Strategy Group, Scott manages dedicated US corporate bond portfolios.
Fundamental weighting is also employed by some bond funds, including PowerShares Fundamental High Yield
Corporate Bond Portfolio and PowerShares Fundamental Investment Grade Corporate Bond Portfolio, both exchange - traded funds.
Our Laddered Investing Interest Rate Scenario Tool helps you create sample laddered municipal and
corporate bond portfolios and explore how they would perform in different rising rate environments.
Rising bond prices have produced nice returns for investors: at GBC, for example,
the corporate bond portfolio is up about 10 per cent year to date.
So, a 60 % equities 40 %
corporate bond portfolio has about the same return characteristics as a 70 % equities, 30 % government bond portfolio if you like to translate our portfolio weights into a Stock vs. Corporate Bond portfolio.
A corporate bond portfolio that matures at the end of Dec. 2013 and returns your upfront investment to you
During his 38 - year investment career, he served as an investment officer for Southland Life Insurance Company, where he was
a corporate bond portfolio manager and private placement analyst.