Global Strategic Bond Fund
This portfolio is suitable for investors who require sector specific exposure to global bonds as part of their overall investment strategy. Investors should have a low to medium tolerance for risk and maintain their investment over a medium to long term horizon.
Fund values
Core
The fund is an unlevered core global bond portfolio focusing on liquidity, interest rate, and credit risk, while avoiding currency risk and illiquid, lower-quality, or ESG-risk exposed bonds.
Nimble
The co-portfolio management setup showcases allocation skills, with a disciplined framework for nimble decision-making and ESG considerations, strategically generating alpha through relative value, duration, and security selection.
Proven
The fund managers have consistently delivered rolling 3-year excess returns and superior risk-adjusted returns, backed by over 20 years of experience in multi-sector bond investing.
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Latest investment insights
When the income does the heavy lifting
For all the talk of turmoil in bond markets, yields have barely moved. With high-quality paper paying mid-single digits, investors don’t need to do anything clever to beat the bank or inflation, explains David Roberts.
When the income does the heavy lifting
Exclusions over illusions
An investment process is defined as much by what it refuses to hold as by what it buys. And with high-quality yields at levels not seen in a generation, the things a bond fund rules out cost less to give up than at almost any point in living memory, as David Roberts and Alex Ralph explain.
Exclusions over illusions
In credit, liquidity is easy to overestimate
Liquidity is often treated as a constant in public markets, something investors can rely on. Recent events suggest a more complex reality. Many current concerns around credit are focused on private credit – and that conversation is worth having – but for investors in public fixed income, the more relevant question is: do you really understand the liquidity profile of what you hold?
In credit, liquidity is easy to overestimate
Financing the AI Boom – what are the risks for credit investors
A look at the AI spending boom and how it affects credit investors.
Financing the AI Boom – what are the risks for credit investors
Turning volatility into opportunity
As interest rate expectations continue to shift across G7 economies, bond markets have responded with sharp and often unpredictable moves. The Nedgroup Global Strategic Bond Fund has navigated this volatility with discipline, agility, and a clear focus on value.
Turning volatility into opportunity
Outlook for bonds in Q4 2025
David Roberts, Co-Portfolio Manager of the Global Strategic Bond Fund, gives his views on what to expect in the global bond market.
Outlook for bonds in Q4 2025
UK Government Bonds - A gift for the active manager?
An Active manager has had at least 9 opportunities to make double the return of a passive alternative.
UK Government Bonds - A gift for the active manager?
Why I'm buying Japanese Government Bonds
The Japanese sovereign bond market makes up around 15% of the Global Bond market yet many investors have studiously avoided it - until now.
Why I'm buying Japanese Government Bonds
Is now the time to buy US Treasuries?
Off the back of weak US CPI data, the UST market has rallied. Perhaps the death of American assets has been exaggerated?
Is now the time to buy US Treasuries?
Lessons from history
The sharp steepening of the US yield curve, where 30-year bond yields now exceed 5-year yields by over 1%, signals rising investor concern over fiscal sustainability, inflation, and recession risk.
Lessons from history
Warum globale Anleihen angesichts sinkender Zinsen glänzen
Mit dem Beginn des Zinsrückgangs verändert sich die Landschaft für Anleiheinvestoren dramatisch. Inhaber inländischer Anleihen, insbesondere solche mit kurzfristiger Laufzeit, sehen sich bei Fälligkeit mit erhöhter Volatilität und sinkenden Einnahmen konfrontiert.
Warum globale Anleihen angesichts sinkender Zinsen glänzen
China and Japan: two juggernauts which bond investors love to avoid
The significance of Chinese and Japanese bonds in the global market is on the rise. In this article, we delve into the challenges and opportunities for investors, highlighting the increasing duration contributions and shifting correlations with US bonds. As we navigate this evolving landscape, find out why it's crucial to focus on core bond opportunities elsewhere.
