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BNP Paribas launches traditional fixed income fund
BNP Paribas Investment Partners (BNPP IP) has launched a new fixed income capability targeting superannuation funds and insurance organisations.
The BNP Paribas Asset management Core Plus Fixed Income Fund is managed by an in-house team led by Doyle Mallett.
The fund will predominately invest in Australian fixed income securities, although the portfolio guidelines allow up to 20 per cent of the fund to be allocated to global fixed income.
The global component of the fund will be managed by BNPP IP-owned New York fund manager Fischer Francis Trees & Watts.
BNPP IP chief executive Robert Harrison said the advantage of this structure was that the firm had an experienced team running the fixed income portfolio from Australia, but was still able to leverage the global credit research, scale and expertise of the wider company.
The fund’s Australian allocation has a wide security universe, which invests in both Australian-domiciled securities and in the offshore debt of Australian companies.
Harrison said that although many recent fixed income offerings had taken on equity-like characteristics, this fund would have the traditional defensive characteristics that investors are now looking to return to.
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Ashleigh McIntyre
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