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Fixed income investment team

Principal Fixed Income

Global platform with capabilities spanning all major fixed income sectors, focused on delivering solutions to personalized investment objectives.

Our investment approach

Principal Fixed Income has experience that spans all major fixed income sectors and partners with clients to establish standard and custom solutions to achieve personalized objectives. Our globally integrated platform, with specialized teams worldwide and over 100 investment professionals, helps to directly access global fixed income markets and deliver comprehensive investment perspectives.

Our platform’s structure and proprietary investment tools foster cross-sector collaboration amongst sector-specialty teams. This diversity of insight helps each team formulate richer investment theses and make better-informed investment decisions.

Informed portfolio decisions from cross-sector collaboration
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Explore our featured fixed income strategies.

To help you diversify your opportunities, we continually review fixed income markets to identify and offer strategies to meet your objectives.

Core Fixed Income

Seeking an attractive level of current income with a focus on capital preservation through a long-term, high-conviction approach.

Core Plus Bond

Seeking to take advantage of relative value opportunities across the fixed income universe through an active, multi-sector approach.

High Yield

Emphasizing active security selection across the high yield investment universe to identify and extract value from market inefficiencies, while limiting downside risk.

Global High Yield

Emphasizing active security selection across the global high yield investment universe to identify and extract value from market inefficiencies while limiting downside risk.

Liability Driven Investing (LDI)

Solving complex asset-liability matching challenges for defined benefit plan sponsors through tailored, outcome-oriented solutions.

Short-Term Income

A high-quality short duration strategy seeking to provide an attractive level of income, while protecting principal.

Sustainable investing documents
Principal Fixed Income: ESG Principles (PDF)
Get to know our fixed income investment teams.

Our fixed income investment teams have a track record of solving for a wide range of personalized investor objectives.

Principal Alternative Credit
A seasoned investment team with significant credit investment experience across all major industries and market cycles, focused on providing our global investment base access to private credit solutions.
Principal Finisterre
As a specialist emerging market debt manager committed to delivering solutions that can perform in any market condition, the team utilizes an unconstrained, time-tested approach to managing income, volatility, and liquidity.
Principal Morley
Specializes in managing capital preservation strategies and designing customized stable value solutions through a risk-managed, multi-stage construction approach, incorporating a proprietary optimization model.
Spectrum Asset Management
Extensive experience managing global preferred and capital securities with a robust fundamental credit research approach, including both top-down and bottom-up analyses that lead to selective and thoughtful portfolio construction.
Get the latest insights
Multi-sector monthly commentary
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A timely review of market conditions, our fixed income outlook, and current positioning themes.
February 9, 2026
Off quarter outlook
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Markets don’t wait for quarter-end, and neither should we. This intra-quarter outlook is designed to provide timely insights helping investors position portfolios between traditional reporting milestones.
December 3, 2025
1Q 2026 Fixed Income Perspectives
Themes, outlook, and investment implications across global fixed income markets.
January 13, 2026

Past performance does not guarantee future results.

Fixed‐income investment options are subject to interest rate risk, and their value will decline as interest rates rise.

ESG integration is considered across all actively managed asset classes, with the approach determined by each investment group’s process. This information is specific to the strategies managed by the individuals providing this content and various investment teams across Principal may have differing views of this approach.

ESG criteria may present additional advantages or risks and does not protect against market risks or volatility. You should not make any investment assumptions based solely on the information contained herein. There is no assurance that any ESG component in our investing strategy will be successful.

Principal Fixed Income is an investment team within Principal Global Investors.