BlueBay Investment Grade Japan Bond Fund

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    Overview

    The BlueBay Investment Grade Japan Bond Fund’s (the Fund) objective is to achieve a total return in excess of the Nomura Bond Performance Index (BPI) Total Return index from active management of a portfolio of predominantly investment grade securities.

    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

     

    For share class information, please contact marketing@bluebay.com.

    Investment approach

    • Seeking to generate excess returns via superior sector and issuer selection based on high quality forensic proprietary research of macro and credit decisions
    • Research seeks to integrate macro, regulatory and political research with more traditional balance sheet analysis
    • Strong emphasis on capital preservation - means focus on total as well as relative returns
    • Disciplined risk management at every stage of investment process

    Investment philosophy

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    The BlueBay Investment Grade Japan Bond Fund is a strategy which aims to deliver a total return in excess of the Nomura BPI Total Return index in all market environments

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    The Fund invests predominantly in Japanese investment grade bond securities 

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    Excess returns are expected to come from active management based on high quality forensic proprietary research on macro and credit issuer decisions

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    Mark Dowding

    BlueBay Chief Investment Officer, BlueBay Fixed Income

    Mark is Chief Investment Officer for BlueBay fixed income. He has over 30 years' investment experience as a macro fixed income investor and has been a senior BlueBay portfolio manager since he joined in August 2010. As a macro risk taker, Mark actively pursues an open dialogue with policy makers and opinion formers, believing that proprietary research is key to gaining insights to generate strong investment returns. Prior to joining the firm, Mark was Head of Fixed Income in Europe for Deutsche Asset Management, a role he previously occupied at Invesco. He started his career as a fixed income portfolio manager at Morgan Grenfell in 1993 and holds a BSc (Hons) in Economics from the University of Warwick.

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    Neil Mehta

    BlueBay Portfolio Manager, Investment Grade

    Neil is a BlueBay Portfolio Manager within BlueBay's Investment Grade team, with a particular focus on the government and aggregate strategies. Neil joined BlueBay Asset Management (which is now part of RBC Global Asset Management) in July 2016, and spent the first part of his tenure in Investment Communications before moving to his current role in January 2019. Prior to BlueBay, Neil worked at IHS Markit where he was a Fixed Income Analyst. He holds a BSc in Mathematics & Business Management from the University of Birmingham and a MSc in International Securities, Investment and Banking from the University of Reading.

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