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 fixed income, 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.
Ardea Investment Management is a specialist ‘relative value’ fixed income investment manager. Ardea IM’s differentiated pure ‘relative value’ investing approach offers a compelling alternative to conventional fixed income investments because it is independent of the prevailing interest rate environment and how bond markets are performing.
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 can enhance portfolio resilience by providing consistent income and reducing sensitivity to equity market movements. The asset class is particularly valuable during periods of economic uncertainty, when income stability and capital preservation become more important. Active fixed income managers draw on deep market insight, credit analysis and risk management to identify mispriced securities, manage duration and credit exposure, and navigate different interest‑rate and market environments. This can help produce more predictable outcomes and complement higher‑growth assets elsewhere in a portfolio.
Why Choose Fidante For Fixed Income?
- Specialist managers with expertise across public and private credit markets;
- Proven ability to deliver consistent income and capital preservation;
- Access to innovative strategies including relative value and unconstrained approaches;
- Active risk management and deep credit research to navigate changing market conditions
- Strength, governance and distribution expertise of the Fidante platform.
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FAQs On Fixed Income
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.
You can access fixed income through managed funds, ETFs, or specialist portfolios that invest across government bonds, corporate credit, and private debt. Professional managers also offer more advanced strategies such as relative value, unconstrained or absolute return approaches, which aim to deliver stable returns across market cycles.
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.