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Overview
An impact-aligned strategy that will predominantly invest in public and liquid corporate IG debt. The strategy invests for positive impact across our sustainability themes to addressing major environmental and social challenges, with investments qualifying either due to the core economic activities of the issuer or the activity being funded/supported by the security meeting the Fund’s sustainability themes.
Sustainability-related disclosure
The Fund does not reference any benchmark.
Fund specific risks
- At times, the market for investment grade bonds may dry up, which could make it difficult to sell these bonds, or the fund may only be able to sell them at a discount
- There may be cases where an organisation with which we trade assets or derivatives (usually a financial institution such as a bank) may be unable to fulfil its obligations, which could cause losses to the fund
- RBC BlueBay's analysis of sustainability factors can rely on input from external providers. Such data may be inaccurate or incomplete or unavailable and BlueBay could assess the sustainability risks of securities held in correctly
- RBC BlueBay could suffer from a failure of its processes, systems and controls – or from such a failure at an organisation on which we rely in order to deliver our services – which could lead to losses for the fund
This is a marketing communication. There are several risks associated with investing in this product. Please refer to the prospectus of the fund and to the KIID available on this website before making any final investment decisions.
ESG investing: our approach
RBC BlueBay believes that ESG factors can potentially have a material impact on an issuer’s long-term financial performance. Given the limited upside (and potentially significant downside) of fixed income investments, the focus of our ESG analysis is on understanding downside risks.1
Sustainability impact report 2024 - summary
Sustainability impact report 2024 - full
1. Certain investment strategies, asset classes, exposure and security types do not integrate ESG factors, including but not limited to money market, buy-and maintain, passive, and certain third-party sub-advised strategies or certain currency or derivative instruments. Different strategies that integrate ESG factors will be at varying stages of implementation. Please read a fund's prospectus or offering memorandum for further details.
Investment philosophy
One investment team, built around a single investment process
Investment process structured to deliver solutions for clients
Heritage in managing absolute and benchmark relative strategies
Focus on long/short investing with underlying capital preservation mindset
Proprietary technology supports high touch investment process
Proprietary risk management is central to our approach and is essential to delivering successful outcomes
Tom Moulds
BlueBay Senior Portfolio Manager, Investment Grade
Tom is a Managing Director and a BlueBay Senior Portfolio Manager within the Investment Grade team. His focus is on European non-sovereign debt for which he manages BlueBay's European Corporate Strategy, including a flagship mutual fund and several bespoke mandates. Tom joined BlueBay Asset Management (which is now part of RBC Global Asset Management) in December 2005 and the Investment Grade team in July 2007. He has been instrumental in driving the success of the European IG credit strategy, both in absolute return and benchmark portfolios, as well as developing the growing number of buy-and-maintain strategies. More recently, Tom's focus has been the launch of the Capital Income Fund and the Impact-Aligned Strategy in line with growing investor demand for sustainable investment funds. His knowledge of financial software development and programming has been integral in tailoring BlueBay's information systems to assist with active portfolio management. Prior to BlueBay, he worked as a financial analyst at the UK head office of Schneider Electric. Tom holds a BSc degree in Mathematics from the University of Wales, Swansea, and is a CFA charterholder.
My-Linh Ngo
Senior Director & Impact-Aligned Strategist, Responsible Investment
My-Linh is Senior Director & Impact-Aligned Strategist in the Responsible Investment (RI) team at RBC Global Asset Management (RBC GAM), with lead responsibility for ESG integration and stewardship across the firm’s global fixed income assets, including BlueBay fixed income. She is also a sustainability strategist for the impact-aligned bond strategy managed on the BlueBay fixed income investment platform. My-Linh represents RBC GAM and RBC BlueBay (RBC GAM’s business outside North America) externally in a range of committees and working groups focused on driving RI best practice in the fixed income asset class. She has over two decades of experience working in the RI industry, joining BlueBay Asset Management (which is now part of RBC GAM) in 2014. Prior to this, My-Linh was at Schroders Investment Management Ltd as an ESG Analyst, and at Henderson Global Investors as an Associate Director – SRI Research.