Fidante’s fixed income strategies go beyond traditional bonds, offering innovative approaches that can help investors achieve the key goals of a fixed income allocation: regular income, portfolio stability, and diversification.
Our managers deliver solutions across credit markets, relative value opportunities, and unconstrained, benchmark-unaware portfolios. They combine deep market insight with disciplined risk management aiming to achieve consistent outcomes.
Meet Our Fixed Income Managers
Each manager brings a unique approach to investing in global equities, giving you the flexibility to choose strategies that align with your goals.
Challenger Investment Management is an alternative credit manager with a strong pedigree in the less liquid parts of the global credit market.
A specialist investment manager focused on absolute return fixed income strategies. Kapstream combines capital preservation techniques with unconstrained portfolio management skills in the pursuit of stable, absolute returns.
Bentham Asset Management is a specialist global credit investment manager. Their investment philosophy is based on a strong credit culture and a systematic investment process. Their focus is on the preservation of principal and protection against downside risk.
What is Fixed Income?
Fixed income refers to a broad category of investments that provide regular income through interest payments, typically with lower volatility than equities. This asset class includes government bonds, corporate credit, securitised assets and private debt, with each offering varying levels of risk and return. Fixed income plays a key role in portfolio construction by helping to preserve capital, generate steady income, and stabilise overall returns during periods of market uncertainty.
Why invest in Fixed Income?
Fixed income refers to a broad category of investments that provide regular income through interest payments, typically with lower volatility than equities. This asset class includes government bonds, corporate credit, securitised assets and private debt, with each offering varying levels of risk and return. Fixed income plays a key role in portfolio construction by helping to preserve capital, generate steady income, and stabilise overall returns during periods of market uncertainty.
Why choose Fidante for Fixed Income?
For investors, that means access to carefully curated investment opportunities, delivered with the resources, experience and award-winning distribution network that only Fidante can provide. Our investment managers are chosen not just for their robust processes, but for their deep expertise, passion and ability to deliver meaningful outcomes for investors. By matching their talent with our scale, resources and distribution, we create partnerships designed for long-term success.
- Specialist global equity managers with strong long-term track records;
- Deep local insight across developed and emerging markets;
- Access to diverse strategies spanning regions, sectors, and styles;
- Exposure to global megatrends and innovation-led growth;
- Strength, governance and distribution expertise of the Fidante platform.
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FAQs on Global Equities
Fixed income refers to investments that pay regular interest, such as government bonds, corporate credit, securitised assets and private debt. These investments generally offer lower volatility than equities and play an important role in preserving capital, generating income and stabilising portfolio returns.
When you invest in fixed income, you are effectively lending money to a government, company, or institution. In return, you receive regular interest payments (known as coupons) and your original investment is typically repaid at maturity. Returns are mainly driven by interest income, credit quality, and movements in interest rates.
Fixed income investments carry risks including interest rate risk (bond prices may fall when interest rates rise), credit risk (the issuer may be unable to meet its obligations), and liquidity risk (difficulty buying or selling certain securities). Active managers help mitigate these risks through diversification, research-driven credit analysis and disciplined risk management.
Fixed income provides defensive characteristics that help offset equity market volatility. It can reduce overall portfolio risk, deliver stable income streams, and preserve capital, particularly during periods of economic uncertainty. This makes it an important component of a balanced, long term investment strategy.
Fixed income provides defensive characteristics that help offset equity market volatility. It can reduce overall portfolio risk, deliver stable income streams, and preserve capital, particularly during periods of economic uncertainty. This makes it an important component of a balanced, long term investment strategy.
Active fixed income managers use research, credit analysis and risk management to identify mispriced securities, manage duration and adjust exposure across interest rate cycles. This approach aims to deliver more consistent and predictable outcomes compared to passive strategies that simply track a bond index.
No. Although fixed income is generally considered lower risk than equities, returns are not guaranteed. Bond values can fluctuate and issuers can experience financial difficulty. The degree of risk varies significantly depending on the type of fixed income security and the strength of the issuer.