{"id":39886,"date":"2015-02-04T07:45:29","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T06:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/innovation\/nomura-asset-management-launches-new-bond-fund-to-provide-exposure-to-full-range-of-global-fixed-income-opportunities\/"},"modified":"2015-02-04T07:45:29","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T06:45:29","slug":"nomura-asset-management-launches-new-bond-fund-to-provide-exposure-to-full-range-of-global-fixed-income-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/innovation\/nomura-asset-management-launches-new-bond-fund-to-provide-exposure-to-full-range-of-global-fixed-income-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"Nomura Asset Management launches new bond fund to provide exposure to full range of global fixed income opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nomura Asset Management U.K. Ltd. (NAM) has launched<br \/>\nthe Global Dynamic Bond Fund, designed to provide investors with a more diversified<br \/>\napproach to fixed income investing. Unconstrained by benchmark allocations, the fund seeks<br \/>\nto generate attractive total returns by investing across a full range of fixed income securities.<\/p>\n<p>Managed by Richard Hodges, the fund utilises top-down analysis of macroeconomic and<br \/>\nmarket themes to construct a strategic core portfolio of cash bonds, accounting for at least<br \/>\n80% of the assets within the strategy. Allocations will look to benefit from expected changes<br \/>\nin markets, with the fund\u2019s diversification allowing greater flexibility to invest across all fixed<br \/>\nincome assets, including convertible bonds and local currency instruments.<\/p>\n<p><quote>Risk control plays a pivotal role in the strategy. The portfolio manager will use derivatives to<br \/>\nprovide cost effective hedging strategies to protect and position the fund to benefit from<br \/>\nshort-term market movements and shocks.<\/quote><\/p>\n<p>The fund launch marks the extension of NAM\u2019s fixed income offering, which currently has<br \/>\n$53bn of assets under management in active fixed income accounts globally. <\/p>\n<p>The Global<br \/>\nDynamic Bond Fund managers are fully supported by the group\u2019s wider resources, drawing<br \/>\non the company\u2019s global fixed income team to access both top-down strategic and bottom-up<br \/>\nasset selection ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Bisson, President of Nomura Asset Management U.K. Ltd, said:<br \/>\n<em>\u201cWe are seeing a significant rise in demand from investors for unconstrained, opportunistic<br \/>\nfixed income solutions given the low yields currently provided by fixed income assets and<br \/>\nconcerns over interest rate fluctuations. The new Global Dynamic Bond Fund offers<br \/>\ninvestors a flexible approach that directly addresses these needs, delivering both attractive<br \/>\nreturns and protection from adverse short term market movements.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Richard Hodges added:<br \/>\n<em>\u201cNomura\u2019s global presence and extensive resources have helped us to build a diversified<br \/>\nportfolio that can deliver attractive yields and potential for capital return. The fund will invest<br \/>\nacross multiple fixed income asset classes, credit ratings, geographies and sectors, allowing<br \/>\nus to dynamically position the portfolio to enable investors to benefit from short and longterm<br \/>\nthemes.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Richard Hodges joined NAM in November 2014 from Legal &#038; General Investment<br \/>\nManagement (LGIM), where he held the role of Head of High Alpha Fixed Income and<br \/>\nlaunched the company\u2019s multi-award winning Dynamic Bond Trust. Ben Bugg also joined<br \/>\nfrom LGIM, where he was an Assistant Fund Manager in its High Alpha Fixed Income team,<br \/>\nworking across a range of strategies including, amongst others, the Dynamic Bond Trust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nomura Asset Management U.K. Ltd. (NAM) has launched<br \/>\nthe Global Dynamic Bond Fund, designed to provide investors with a more diversified<br \/>\napproach to fixed income investing. Unconstrained by benchmark allocations, the fund seeks<br \/>\nto generate attractive total returns by investing across a full range of fixed income securities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":39884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1471],"tags":[1655,1856,1859,1681,1651,1437,1691,1952,1787],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39886"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}