Fixed income
Global Fixed Income Team
The Global Fixed Income team combines an actively managed global macro approach for interest rates and currency with fundamental, disciplined security selection for credit. The team believes this maximizes total returns over the long run.
Global macro opportunities and fundamental security selection
Global Fixed Income team: unlocking relative value opportunities across the globe
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Henrietta Pacquement: The Global Fixed Income team seeks to unlock relative value opportunities across the global fixed income markets. The team combines a global macro approach for interest rates and currency with fundamental disciplined security selection for credit. We believe this really has the ability to maximize total returns over the long run. Our Global Bond strategies target outperformance through interest rates and currency positioning. They blend quantitative factors developed in collaboration with the Allspring Systematic Fixed Income team with qualitative oversight. This quantamental approach is our edge. We exploit global inefficiencies by accessing a broad opportunity set, covering 40 interest rate environments and 30 currencies across both developing and emerging markets. Viewing both bond and currency factors provides a structured view of the world for portfolio construction and idea generation. Our Credit Focused strategies target outperformance through security selection. They rely on close collaboration with the Allspring Global Fixed Income Research platform to identify investment opportunities in the investment grade space. We believe that rigorous fundamental research focused on credit worthiness, coupled with well-considered relative valuations, generates the best risk-adjusted returns. A deep understanding of sectors, industries, and corporations allows our team to identify and target market opportunities.
Competitive advantages
Broad and global opportunity set
Global reach allows the team to exploit inefficiencies and unlock relative-value opportunities.
Security selection
The majority of alpha is generated from bottom-up idiosyncratic risk for credit-focused strategies.
Sustainability
ESG and climate are fully integrated in the investment process supported by the team’s proprietary frameworks.
Customization
The experienced team crafts portfolios that are benchmark-aware but not benchmark-driven, tailored to client requirements.
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From Allspring's Global Fixed Income team, Alex Temple, Head of Credit, and Lauren van Biljon, Head of Rates and FX, join Matt Soifer, Head of US institutional distribution, to go around the globe—discussing how recent and upcoming elections from Asia, Europe, North America, and more may impact bond markets worldwide.
Alex Temple, senior portfolio manager, has experience and expertise in credit portfolios and sustainable finance, making him a natural fit to co-manage Allspring’s climate transition credit strategies.
