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Home Fixed income investment strategies Capital and Hybrid Securities

Capital and Hybrid Securities strategy differentiators

  • Active management based on specialized research and dynamic security selection to manage complex global markets.

  • Deep and broad experience analyzing, managing, and pricing complex security structures across a variety of credit, interest rate, and regulatory conditions.

  • An emphasis on capital preservation equates to higher quality and capital structure bias, seeking to deliver a low volatility profile and attractive risk-adjusted returns.

  • Investing down the capital structure by focusing on higher-quality issuers, while avoiding unrated securities.

Capital and Hybrid Securities strategy facts

  • Manager

    Spectrum Asset Management

  • Index

    ICE BofA Euro Corporate Senior Index

  • Targeted number of holdings

    n/a

  • Expected turnover

    20%-30%

  • Investment vehicles

    UCITS Fund

Capital and Hybrid Securities portfolio managers

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.

Chief Executive Officer of Spectrum Asset Management
Mark A. Lieb
47 years of experience
Chief Investment Officer of Spectrum Asset Management
L. Phillip Jacoby
42 years of experience
Portfolio Manager
Kevin Nugent
40 years of experience
Portfolio Manager
Fred Diaz
32 years of experience
Portfolio Manager
Bob Giangregorio
21 years of experience
Portfolio Manager
Manu Krishnan, CFA
20 years of experience
Portfolio Manager and Trader
Satomi Yarnell
15 years of experience
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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. Risks of preferred securities differ from risks inherent in other investments. In a bankruptcy preferred securities are senior to common stock but subordinate to other corporate debt. Preferreds also contain risks including coupon deferral risk, credit risk, call risk, conversion risk and write-down risk.

Investment guidelines are subject to change.

Not all investment options are available in all jurisdictions. Certain vehicles have not been registered with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission under the United States Securities Act of 1933 and may not be directly or indirectly offered or sold in the United States or to any United States person.

Spectrum Asset Management, Inc., is an affiliate of Principal Global Investors.

The ICE BofA Euro Corporate Senior Index is a subset of ICE BofA Euro Corporate Index including all senior securities. ICE BofA Euro Corporate Index tracks the performance of EUR denominated below investment grade corporate debt publicly issued in the eurobond or Euro member domestic markets.