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FIXED INCOME

The fixed income team, headed by Mark Nash, offers capabilities in multi-sector bonds (including both absolute-return and market-relative strategies), corporate bonds, including financials contingent capital bonds (often known as “CoCos”) and both local- and hard-currency emerging market bonds. The portfolio managers and analysts who specialise in these areas collaborate to share ideas on strategy, positioning and research – as well as developing a holistic view of the fixed income market.

This collaborative structure is pivotal to our investment philosophy that having specialists in each of the major areas of fixed income, who work closely with one another, is crucial to finding value in today’s increasingly interconnected markets.

Philosophy

Within multi-sector bond portfolios, our philosophy is to take an ‘all-weather’ approach, seeking to generate returns from interest rates, foreign exchange, credit, volatility and emerging markets. The managers place great emphasis on working within a centralised team, believing this brings the advantages of flexibility and coherence. The team offers both absolute return and market relative capabilities.

Investment team

Mark Nash is portfolio manager and head of global bonds, while Nicholas Wall is a portfolio manager. They are supported by the wider fixed income team.

Capabilities

  • Global, absolute return, multi-sector/strategic bonds

    Merian Strategic Absolute Return Bond Fund

    The fund is intended for investors seeking a long-term, diversified, actively managed fixed-interest investment; the managers aim to generate a gradual rise in the performance over time, regardless of broader market moves. Investment is focused on government and corporate bonds and currencies, with an emphasis on highly liquid assets, giving the portfolio managers flexibility to express their convictions while supporting an emphasis on maintaining liquidity and preserving capital. The fund can ‘short’ the market, to profit when prices fall, in order to help achieve consistent positive returns through a variety of market conditions.

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Philosophy

The team places great emphasis on robust quantitative research, believing that this can help avoid behavioural biases and take advantage of market inefficiencies. It believes in accessing markets early and in considering a broad universe for investment opportunity. The team analyses the drivers of the asset class in depth, including global monetary policy, emerging market growth, changes in China’s economy, and emerging market domestic policy and reforms.

Investment team

Highly experienced emerging market debt portfolio manager Delphine Arrighi is supported by Patty Cao, assistant portfolio manager.

Capabilities

  • Hard currency emerging market debt

    Merian Emerging Market Debt Fund

    The strategy is characterised by an active management style that is dynamic and flexible, separating sources of sovereign return. The three key components of risk and return are external debt, local rates and currency. The strategy combines a quantitative and fundamental style, investing in quasi sovereigns and government debt across a broad universe of instruments and emerging markets.

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  • Local currency emerging market debt

    Merian Local Currency Emerging Market Debt Fund

    The strategy is characterised by an active management style that is dynamic and flexible, separating sources of sovereign return. The three key components of risk and return are external debt, local rates and currency. The strategy combines a quantitative and fundamental style, investing in quasi sovereigns and government debt across a broad universe of instruments and emerging markets.

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Philosophy

Within our credit portfolios, we combine rigorous bottom-up research of securities with a deep understanding of the macroeconomic environment, in order to unearth the investment opportunities with the most favourable risk-reward characteristics. This philosophy enables us to generate returns by gaining exposure to investment themes across different parts of the capital structure and credit curve, in global corporate debt markets. A strong focus on liquidity and risk-management is core to our approach, whereby we seek to deliver yield at the same time as protecting client capital.

Investment team

The highly experienced credit team consists of portfolio managers Lloyd Harris and Deepa Abraham, and dedicated analysts Simon Prior and Przemyslaw Pietraszek.

Capabilities

  • UK investment-grade corporate bonds/credit

    Merian Investment Grade Corporate Bond Fund

    The strategy aims to provide investors with a meaningful level of income, through investment in companies founded on lasting financial strength. The strategy selects diverse sources of return from the large investment universe of investment grade corporate debt of issuers based in the United States, Europe and Asia.

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Philosophy

Contingent capital bonds, also known as contingent convertible bonds (or “CoCos”) have been a fast-growing asset class, and the increase in their issuance has been driven by regulatory change. CoCos were created in the wake of the great financial crisis of 2007-08, in order to increase banks’ ability to bear losses beyond their equity buffers, and regulators have encouraged issuance of the securities.

The managers believe CoCos have the potential to offer a yield in excess of that delivered by European bank equities, but with lower volatility. CoCos can also have low correlations with government and corporate bonds, and thus provide investors with diversification.

The fund managers aim to provide investors with a combination of income and capital growth from a portfolio primarily of CoCos. In managing the portfolio, they focus on selecting high-quality issuers, whose CoCos have a lower likelihood of conversion, in their view.

Investment team

Although a large and highly liquid asset class, managing a portfolio of CoCos requires specialist knowledge. The fund’s managers, Rob James and Lloyd Harris, have a wealth of experience covering financials, combining expertise in both debt and equity. Lloyd is a member of the fixed income team, led by Mark Nash, while Rob is a member of the UK equity team, headed by Richard Buxton.

Capabilities

  • Contingent capital/contingent convertible bonds (“CoCos”)

    Merian Financials Contingent Capital Fund

    The aim of the fund is to give investors access to a diversified portfolio representing managers’ views that takes advantage of opportunities in contingent capital bonds, also known as contingent convertible bonds (CoCos). The fund is managed in reference to the Bloomberg Barclays Contingent Capital Western Europe Index, but is not constrained by the index. The fund aims to provide investors with a combination of income and capital growth from a portfolio primarily of CoCos. The fund’s managers focus on selecting high quality issuers, whose CoCos have a lower likelihood of conversion in their view. The fund will typically look to invest at least 75% in CoCos, with up to 25% in a combination of equity instruments, collective investment schemes, cash, government or other bonds.

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