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Differentiators
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Overview

We invest across the world’s fixed income markets to meet clients’ needs for income and capital preservation.

Key Differentiators

Structure

Global platform with investment capabilities spanning the full spectrum of active fixed income
Specialized teams focusing on fixed income sectors.

Strength

Autonomy and specialization enable each team to leverage its unique strength
Active management provides opportunity for alpha generation

Strategies

Active strategies that span geographies, duration and yield targets
Tax-exempt, taxable and tax-optimized offerings

Our Fixed Income Platform

Deep fundamental research forms the foundation of our investment strategies.

Emerging Markets Debt

Investment-Grade Credit

Leveraged Credit

Multi-Sector

Securitized

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Feaured Insights

Video

Global Macro Video: Managing the Portfolio

The investment process uses three advantages: a broad universe of over 100 countries, idea generation, and trading alpha. By focusing on countries as research units, the team forecasts policy changes, finding opportunities in sovereign bonds and related risks like currency and credit spreads. Decentralized idea generation lets managers specialize and turn insights into returns. Please refer to internal sources for the most current information.

24-Nov-2025

Global Fixed Income Bulletin

Video: The 40% Conundrum (Navigating with Limited Visibility)

Global fixed income markets are entering a more uncertain phase following the Fed’s second consecutive rate cut and delayed U.S. data releases. Watch our latest video to observe how investors can stay flexible and focused on income in our November outlook.

21-Nov-2025

Global Fixed Income Bulletin

The 40% Conundrum

With policy visibility constrained, disciplined security selection, sector diversification, and a focus on quality will be essential as investors navigate the transition toward 2026.

17-Nov-2025

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Our Fixed Income Teams

Led by long-tenured investors, our specialized teams use disciplined processes and strive to provide strong long-term investment results.

Broad Markets Fixed Income Team	Our team provides exposure to what we consider the best ideas in fixed income. Leveraging the expertise of our specialized teams, we use a team-based, rigorous and disciplined process that seeks out superior and repeatable results.
Emerging Markets Debt Team	Our over 40-year history of managing emerging markets debt has given us a unique perspective on managing risk for our clients. Our focus on utilizing the full investment universe, concentrating our research on countries and companies exhibiting structural changes, and our world-class dedicated trading and operations team differentiates us from other managers and drives our performance.
Floating-Rate Loans Team	As a pioneer in the floating-rate loan market, the team is dedicated to loan market investing and has a demonstrable track record since 1989.
High Yield Team	Our team has a demonstrable track record of managing high yield assets through multiple market cycles and events, dating back to 1982.
Mortgage & Securitized Team	Our experienced, well-resourced team has been managing mortgage and securitized portfolios dating back to 1984.
Municipals Team	Our team is a leader in municipal bond management, with significant market presence, among the largest and deepest municipal investment teams in the country, and broad selection of municipal strategies.