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Mirabaud - Global High Yield Bonds AH dist. CHF

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Mirabaud - Global High Yield Bonds AH dist. CHF

Investment overview

Seeking out investment opportunities across the global high yield universe, this strategy aims to make the most of an active, flexible, unconstrained approach. A top-down, macro view informs our dynamic allocation across the different geographies and sectors, moving between credit and duration risk. Bottom-up analysis incorporates fundamental, technical and valuation (FTV) factors, along with ESG integration to help us identify strong sustainable opportunities. We mitigate down markets with an active hedging process.

Approach to sustainability

We encourage responsible and sustainable industry practices, and assess how material ESG issues can positively and negatively impact the overall credit profile. The integration of ESG and extra-financial considerations into our analysis is key to understanding risk and long-term opportunity. Our three-step process: 1. Exclusion – we apply an exclusion filter for controversial activities; 2. Positive screening – companies are reviewed according to their ESG-climate profile using a traffic light system that classifies the universe into green, orange and red investments; we exclude the worst performing 20%. Eligible companies are subject to Fundamental, Technical & Valuation analysis to define the portfolio 3. Engagement (post-investment), through active engagement we address ESG/climate issues and encourage best practices among orange issuers and across critical sectors for energy transition.

Mirabaud - Global High Yield Bonds AH dist. CHF

Fund information

Luxembourg

SICAV

Daily

Daily / Daily

0 Business Day / 2 Business Days

0 Business Day / 2 Business Days

23/04/2013

CHF

LU0862027603

ICE BofAML Global High Yield Index CHF Hedged

Bank Pictet & Cie (Europe) AG, Succursale de Luxembourg

Deloitte Audit Sarl

FundPartner Solutions (Europe) SA

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Performance & risk

  • Mirabaud - Global High Yield Bonds AH dist. CHF

  • ICE BofAML Global High Yield Index CHF Hedged

    NAV adjusted in case of distribution

  • Source: Mirabaud Asset Management. Share class and benchmark performance displayed in CHF. The return of your investment may increase or decrease as a result of currency fluctuations if your investment is made in a currency other than that used in the past performance calculation. The Fund is actively managed. The benchmark is shown for comparison purposes only, without implying any particular constraints to the Fund’s investments. Any entry, exit and other charges, commissions or fees, if applied, are excluded from the calculation. Past performance does not predict future returns.

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Past performance is not indicative or a guarantee of future returns. Performance figures do not take into account subscription and redemption fees that might be levied. The sources of the information displayed are deemed reliable. However, the accuracy or completeness of the information displayed cannot be guaranteed, and some figures are only estimates.

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Mirabaud - Global High Yield Bonds AH dist. CHF

Monthly commentary

Performance update

 

US Treasuries rallied in June as the market felt the mood around central bank rates was dovish, despite the Federal Reserve 'dot plot' still showing two cuts for 2025 and being close to reducing that down to one. Helped by the potential for rate cuts without a recession, credit spreads continued their rebound, with global high yield spread -29bps on the month – and now just +6bps wider on the year. There was dispersion within this, with CCC spreads +105bps vs. BB spreads -6bps, as concerns over economic growth made investors wary of reaching too far down the credit spectrum. The escalation of geopolitical tension in the Middle East predominantly impacted commodity markets rather than fixed income, with some outperformance from energy-related bonds that had lagged in previous months.

Within the fund, the positive relative performance came from security selection within developed market high yield, where we had returns of +1.9% compared to the market at +1.6%. Our overweight allocation to subordinated financials also had a significant positive impact, outperforming the broader index return. As there was a general rally, our offsetting underweights in emerging markets and senior financials had a negative relative contribution. Derivatives had a minimal impact on performance this month. On a sector basis, the largest positive relative performance came from financials and industrials, offsetting our largest underweights in healthcare and utilities.

 

Portfolio activity

 

We had previously increased duration as rates moved wider, and as the rally took hold in rates we took some profit, taking duration close to the index at three years. The main duration reduction came from selling Bunds. We took part in new issues in European high yield from Almaviva and Urbaser, and added more short-dated high yield carry in American Axle, Darling Ingredients and Antero Midstream. As recession probability further receded, we removed the Crossover hedge we were holding to protect against a downside shock to high yield.

 

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Portfolio managers

Andrew LAKE

Head of Fixed Income

Andrew Lake, Head of Fixed Income at Mirabaud Asset Management, has experience in the asset management industry since 1996. Prior to joining Mirabaud Asset Management in 2013, Andrew was Head of High Yield Portfolio Management at Aviva Investors. He has managed High Yield funds at Merrill Lynch Investment Managers, where he was responsible for High Yield in London, and at F&C Investments, where he co-managed the institutional High Yield product. He also managed investment grade funds at IBJ Asset Management. Andrew Lake has a history degree from the University of York, an M.B.A from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago and is a non-practicing barrister.

Fatima LUIS

Portfolio Manager

Fatima Luis, Senior Portfolio Manager in the Fixed Income team within Mirabaud Asset Management, has experience in the asset management since 1996. Prior to joining Mirabaud Asset Management in June 2013, Fatima had been working for F&C for 14 years, where she was managing high yield and credit retail funds including the F&C Strategic Bond Fund as well as helping to oversee the institutional global yield mandates totalling approximately $1billion in assets. Fatima started her investment career in 1996 working in emerging market corporate debt before moving to Royal and Sun Alliance in 1998 to help develop the credit and high yield retail proposition. Fatima Luis has a degree in International Relations from Wheaton College, Massachusetts and a Master of Science from the London School of Economics

Al CATTERMOLE

Portfolio Manager/Senior Analyst

Al Cattermole, Fixed Income Portfolio Manager and Senior Analyst, joined Mirabaud in November 2013, from Goldbridge Capital Partners where he was responsible for corporate credit research. Al has previously covered global corporates as an executive director at JP Morgan Asset Management and as an analyst at ECM, having started in credit markets at the Bank of England in 2002. Al Cattermole holds a BA in Economics from the University of Durham and is a CFA Charterholder.