Fixed Income Strategies

US Investment Grade (IG) Credit

• Top-down macro strategy and bottom-up security selection
• Fundamental research to help identify risks and opportunities
• Relative-value investing approach
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Overview

  • 01

    The Investment Grade Credit strategy seeks to provide diversification within US IG Credit by focusing on relative value assessments in a process to help limit downside exposures. The strategy is designed to deliver consistent, risk-managed and attributable investment results by identifying opportunities at the sector and security level.

  • 02

    The team's process is fundamentally driven and leverages extensive US IG Credit resources, encompassing portfolio management and construction, research, trading, capital markets, and risk management. This process is further enhanced by custom-built portfolio management and trading tools that utilize BlackRock’s Aladdin© platform.

  • 03

    The process is designed to adapt to changing market conditions enabling the Team to prioritize either "top-down" or "bottom-up" strategies, based on what they believe will best position the portfolios to achieve client's objectives. Our capabilities spread across customized short, intermediate, broad and long duration strategies.

Portfolio manager

Dan Chen
Managing Director, US Investment Grade Credit Team

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