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To achieve attractive risk-adjusted returns by investing in a diversified portfolio of emerging market debt securities.

The team employs a relative value approach that emphasizes a fundamental, bottom-up process with the objective of enhancing total returns and limiting volatility.

  • Improving country fundamentals
  • Political and social stability
  • Currency reserves to mitigate exchange risk
  • Tangible assets that generate cash flow
  • Reasonable relative valuation levels

The strategy will invest in corporate credit, quasi-sovereign, and sovereign securities issued within emerging countries. The team employs a fundamental, bottom-up, research driven process that seeks to identify investment opportunities based on the economic, political, and social outlook of the country, as well as the industry trends within the country. Additional insight is gained from the wide-ranging network of GE’s global businesses. Country opinion, fundamental credit and relative value analysis, and the economic outlook form the basis for all decisions. Proprietary, quantitative models and well-defined diversification rules support the process and provide risk controls.

Other Fixed Income Strategies
Vita Marie Pike, leads the portfolio management team. GEAM’s credit research team and the corporate debt traders support Vita.
Focus on countries with improving credit fundamentals
  • Local government securities
  • Quasi-government securities
  • Corporate securities
  • Local currency stability
  • Strong local corporations with a global mindset
  • Minimum credit quality of B3/B-
Research
  • Direct with local governments
  • Direct with company
  • GE Global Network
  • Country visits
  • Street research
Buy Decision
  • Fundamental analysis
  • Top-down sovereign analysis
  • Transparency
  • Relative value assessment within and between countries
  • Liquidity
Sell Decision
  • Relative value analysis
  • Where negative trends are apparent
  • Credit deterioration
  • Output from quantitative risk models
  • Target Number of Holdings – 75 to 125
  • Average Quality – Ba / BB
  • Corporate issuer concentration typically does not exceed 3%
  • Industry concentration typically does not exceed 15%
  • Country concentration typically does not exceed 20%

 
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