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Alternatives
Alternatives are in our DNA
RBC Global Asset Management (RBC GAM), which includes active money managers RBC BlueBay Asset Management (RBC BlueBay) within EMEA APAC, as well as PH&N Institutional in Canada, manages more than USD$468 billion in assets globally1.
Sitting within RBC GAM is the BlueBay investment platform. BlueBay, which was established as a long-short credit fund more than two decades ago, has built a suite of sophisticated alternative solutions spanning funds with the ability to short or follow a hedge fund strategy or invest in illiquid credit. The BlueBay alternatives platform sits at more than USD$20 billion2 within the total universe of RBC GAM’s USD$34 billion3 alternatives suite.
Testament to the success of the investment process, the performance of our hedge fund strategies have ranked, on average, in the top 15% versus peers4, with many achieving top decile performance.
How our unique approach to alternatives benefits our clients
Performance-focussed corporate ethos:
Built into everything we do is a foundation of talent, processes, and investment solutions centred on cultivating strong performance.
Built into everything we do is a foundation of talent, processes, and investment solutions centred on cultivating strong performance.
BlueBay’s single investment platform:
Our commitment to collaboration and transparency of decision-making fosters a team approach that is greater than the sum of its parts and results in lower employee turnover and a positive consistency of results. This is exemplified by BlueBay’s single investment process and product design philosophy, combining the best of alternative and traditional capabilities on the same desk, creating a transparent structure where investment ideas are shared and benefitted from across teams.
Our commitment to collaboration and transparency of decision-making fosters a team approach that is greater than the sum of its parts and results in lower employee turnover and a positive consistency of results. This is exemplified by BlueBay’s single investment process and product design philosophy, combining the best of alternative and traditional capabilities on the same desk, creating a transparent structure where investment ideas are shared and benefitted from across teams.
Alpha generation:
We believe specialised teams of experienced investment professionals researching investments and building high conviction, actively managed, risk-controlled portfolios can consistently generate alpha. Each of our strategies are managed by dedicated portfolio teams executing investment strategies specifically designed for the markets in which they invest.
We believe specialised teams of experienced investment professionals researching investments and building high conviction, actively managed, risk-controlled portfolios can consistently generate alpha. Each of our strategies are managed by dedicated portfolio teams executing investment strategies specifically designed for the markets in which they invest.
Client-focused:
Our solutions-driven approach means we endeavour to empower our clients with the knowledge they need to help shape their investment decisions. We work and evolve with our clients, creating and customising investment products that meet their needs.
Our solutions-driven approach means we endeavour to empower our clients with the knowledge they need to help shape their investment decisions. We work and evolve with our clients, creating and customising investment products that meet their needs.
Proprietary research:
This platform also tracks and informs the decision-making behind our strategies using a proprietary framework. This framework allows us to leverage all types of credit and macro factors, and therefore deliver multiple alpha sources.
This platform also tracks and informs the decision-making behind our strategies using a proprietary framework. This framework allows us to leverage all types of credit and macro factors, and therefore deliver multiple alpha sources.
Connectivity:
Built over decades, the intelligence gained from access to the BlueBay fixed income team’s extensive networks within the wider credit and investment community, provides compelling insight that informs their decision-making. From restructuring advisors and debt consultants to international policymakers, these relationships help position the team on the right side of major macro and geopolitical events and means they can deliver for clients at crucial moments.
Built over decades, the intelligence gained from access to the BlueBay fixed income team’s extensive networks within the wider credit and investment community, provides compelling insight that informs their decision-making. From restructuring advisors and debt consultants to international policymakers, these relationships help position the team on the right side of major macro and geopolitical events and means they can deliver for clients at crucial moments.
Our size:
Our scale and tenure in the market affords us complete market access, but our overall size and structure means we can be responsive to, and nimble in, markets while leveraging the infrastructure of the wider RBC group.
Our scale and tenure in the market affords us complete market access, but our overall size and structure means we can be responsive to, and nimble in, markets while leveraging the infrastructure of the wider RBC group.
A world-class investment infrastructure
At RBC BlueBay, we believe that our robust infrastructure is an essential competitive advantage. Our close partnership with our parent organisation, the Royal Bank of Canada, reinforces our ability to build upon this state-of-the-art infrastructure, helping our investment professionals take optimal decisions, build strong portfolios, and ensure that risk management is integrated throughout our investment process.
Our culture: welcoming investment debate
We believe that our governance, process, transparency, and team approach set us apart from our competitors. Welcoming investment debate is part of our culture, and we encourage investment professionals to share investment ideas with their peers, making them better investors, and allowing them to build optimal portfolios that our clients will benefit from.
Hedge Funds and Long Only: the best of both worlds
Our fixed income platform integrates teams of both long-only and hedge fund managers, who work side by side to optimise the implementation of investment views in our portfolios. With complimentary skillsets, we utilise the infrastructure, governance, and research skills of the best long-only managers, with the trading skills, focus on capital preservation, and ability to use a larger toolbox offered by our hedge fund specialists. The result aims to maximise the upside and also minimise downside risk.
Our hedge fund and illiquids offering
1 as at 30 June 2024
2 as at 30 June 2024
3 as at 30 June 2024
4 over a five-year period, as at 17 September 2024. Source: eVestment
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Marc-Hendrik Berthold
Director, Alternative Investments Specialist, Switzerland
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