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    Global aggregate fixed income explained

    Global aggregate fixed income explained

    October 24, 2024 Fixed income

    Global aggregate, also known as core plus, is a high quality, broadly diversified, multi-currency fixed income universe that can provide investors with an extensive range of opportunities to capture value. It incorporates sovereigns and government-related issuers, as well as securitized bonds and corporates. We believe that such a diverse investment grade borrower landscape can offer investors an extensive range of opportunities to capture value.

    While the opportunity set may be there, we believe that successfully managing an active global aggregate bond strategy requires extensive portfolio management capabilities. Insight has managed global aggregate strategies for many years and achieved a track record showing it has regularly generated outperformance against the benchmark index.

    Figure 1: Global core plus has performed well relative to the index and outperformed for the last five calendar years

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    Source: Insight, as of June 30, 2024. Benchmark: Bloomberg Global Aggregate Index – USD Hedged. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Investment in any strategy involves a risk of loss. Performance presented for measurement periods prior to February 1, 2018 represents the portable performance results of a prior affiliated firm which have been linked to the on-going track record for the composite or the composite’s representative account shown as supplemental information. All returns over one year are annualized. The performance results shown are gross of investment management fees and reflect the reinvestment of dividends and/or income and other earnings. Gross of fees

     

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