Our fixed income capabilities
We have a long history of innovation in fixed income. Find out more about the key considerations that drive investment in this asset class at M&G in this short video featuring Jim Leaviss, CIO of fixed income.
Expertise across public and private debt
Comprehensive range of fixed income strategies
Extensive in-house research capabilities
Source: M&G, Public Fixed Income AUM, as at 31 December 2023.
Note: ‘FI professionals’ relates to Fixed Income (FI) Investment professionals including fund managers, portfolio managers, analysts, specialists and dealers.
Our fixed income capabilities
Our emerging market bond strategies seek to capture the most compelling opportunities across the emerging market debt universe, including hard currency government bonds, local currency bonds and corporate bonds. Drawing on our global research coverage, our emerging market bond funds take a highly flexible and active approach, which is not constrained by their benchmark.
Flexible bond funds have the freedom to invest across a wide spectrum of fixed income asset classes, with the fund manager able to adjust portfolio positioning depending on the economic backdrop. Through their more flexible approach, these strategies are designed to perform in a variety of market environments.
These provide a way of investing in a diversified portfolio of bonds that can give investors advance knowledge of the potential return they might receive when the product matures. Such strategies can be of particular interest when bond yields are at potentially attractive levels.
A specialized/qualified fixed maturity investment team builds and manages the funds, harnessing the expertise of M&G’s large team of experienced credit analysts. Our range of funds can meet specific maturities, yield, credit rating and diversification requirements.
Issued by companies with a sub-investment grade credit rating, high yield bonds typically provide a higher level of income in order to compensate investors for the greater risk of default. M&G has long-running experience in this specialist field, having launched the UK’s first high yield corporate bond fund in 1998. More recently, we launched a highly innovative floating rate high yield strategy, designed to mitigate the negative impact of rising interest rates.
Focusing on bonds issued by highly-rated companies, we believe investment grade corporate bond funds can offer a resilient source of income at different stages of the economic cycle. Having launched the first UK corporate bond fund in 1994, M&G has a long history of innovation in this space. Today we offer a comprehensive range of investment grade corporate bond strategies drawing on our long-running expertise in credit investing and extensive credit analyst resources.
Our sustainable fixed income fund range combines our long-running experience in global bond investing with an in-depth assessment of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors. We put sustainability factors at the heart of our investment process, with the aim of continuously maximising sustainability elements while maintaining a value-based investment approach.
The value of the fund's assets will go down as well as up. This will cause the value of your investment to fall as well as rise and you may get back less than you originally invested. This is a marketing communication. Please refer to the prospectus and to the Key information document (KID) before making any final investment decisions.
Public Debt assets under management
By asset class (%)
Data as at 31.12.23
A global fixed income footprint
With investment experts located around the world, we have the capability to discover promising opportunities right across global fixed income markets. Watch the below videos as our experts discuss how the M&G Investment hubs in Singapore, Chicago and London are integrated to collaborate and share expertise.
