Municipal Sustainability Strategy
The strategy aims to deliver current income from intermediate-long maturities offering positive sustainable investing impact. It seeks to outperform the Bloomberg Municipal Bond Index by actively managing duration, yield curve, sector and credit, and security selection.
Competitive advantages
Independent thinking and discipline
A large, seasoned team of municipal fixed income analysts is supported by compliance and portfolio analytics systems.
Collaboration across asset classes
The team can use taxable fixed income analysts to gain intelligence on corporate bonds.
Flexible but uncompromising
The team has the willingness and ability to move down in credit without compromising the investment process.
Exploiting market inefficiencies while employing prudent risk management
Investment success results from disciplined return-enhancement strategies balanced with prudent risk management.