Core Fixed Income Managed Account
Overview
Strategy Details
Primary Benchmark
Bloomberg US Aggregate Index
Portfolio Managers
Chris Harms
Portfolio Manager, Co-Head of Relative Return
Cliff Rowe, CFA
Portfolio Manager
Daniel Conklin, CFA
Portfolio Manager
Strategy Facts
Strategy Inception
1/1/1984
Composite Inception
9/1/2019
About the Team
A comprehensive fixed income platform powered by seasoned investors and focused, benchmark aware investment strategies.
Investment Strategy
- Seek to create portfolios diversified by sector, industry and issuer
- Investment flexibility is constrained to the investment grade portion (rated Baa3/BBB- or higher) of the US fixed income markets
- Duration bands: +/- 1 year (typically within +/- 0.25 year) relative to the benchmark
- All investments must be US dollar denominated
- Issuer maximum of 1%, Treasurys and Government-sponsored entities (GSEs) excluded
- Industry maximum of 25%
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Important Disclosures
Investing involves risk, including possible loss of principal. Fixed-income securities may be susceptible to general movements in the bond market and are subject to credit and interest rate risks. Credit risk arises from an issuerās ability to make interest and principal payments when due, as well as the prices of bonds declining when an issuerās credit quality is expected to deteriorate. Interest rate risk occurs when interest rates rise causing bond prices to fall. The issuer of a debt security may be able to repay principal prior to the securityās maturity, known as prepayment (call) risk, because of an improvement in its credit quality or falling interest rates. In this event, this principal may have to be reinvested in securities with lower interest rates than the original securities, reducing the potential for income.
There is no guarantee that the investment objective will be realized or that the strategy will generate positive or excess return.
Diversification does not ensure a profit or guarantee against a loss.
The Bloomberg US Aggregate Index represents securities that are SEC-registered, taxable, and dollar denominated. The Index covers the US investment grade fixed rate bond market, with index components for government and corporate securities, mortgage passthrough securities, and asset-backed securities. These major sectors are subdivided into more specific indices that are calculated and reported on a regular basis. Indices are unmanaged and do not incur fees. It is not possible to invest directly in an index.
The Composite includes all discretionary Managed Accounts with market values greater than $100,000 managed by Loomis Sayles with investment guidelines prescribing investment in liquid U.S. dollar denominated bonds that do not allow high yield and has a benchmark of the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Index. Proprietary quantitative models are employed in portfolio construction and risk assessment. Loomis Saylesās security level research and tactical sector allocation are primary alpha sources for this product. Yield curve and duration management are additional tools utilized by the portfolio management team. The Composite inception date is September 1, 2019. The Composite was created in September 2019.
Loomis, Sayles & Co., L.P. (āLoomis Saylesā) acts as a discretionary investment manager or non-discretionary model provider in a variety of separately managed account or wrap fee programs (each, an āSMA Programā) sponsored by a third party investment adviser, broker-dealer or other financial services firm (a āSponsorā). When acting as a discretionary investment manager, Loomis Sayles is responsible for implementing trades in SMA Program accounts. When acting as a non-discretionary model provider, Loomis Saylesā responsibility is limited to providing non-discretionary investment recommendations (in the form of a model portfolio) to the SMA Program Sponsor or overlay manager, and the Sponsor or overlay manager may utilize such recommendations in connection with its management of its clientsā SMA Program accounts. In such āmodel-basedā SMA Programs (āModel-Based Programsā), it is the Sponsor or overlay manager, and not Loomis Sayles, which serves as the investment manager to, and has trade implementation. responsibility for, the Model-Based Program accounts, and may customize each client account according to the reasonable restrictions or customization that a client may request.