Investment Grade Corporate

Jonathan Duensing, CFA

Senior Managing Director
Head of Fixed Income, US
Director of Multi-Sector Fixed Income

Biography

Brad Komenda, CFA

Managing Director
Director of Investment Grade Corporates
Portfolio Manager 

Biography

Jonathan Scott, CFA

Senior Vice President
Deputy Director of Multi-Sector Fixed Income
Portfolio Manager

Biography

Overview

• Actively managed strategy that primarily invests in US investment grade corporate bonds
• Consistent process of assessing opportunities in a targeted universe
• Bottom-up approach of security and sector selection that uses proprietary valuation tools and in-depth fundamental analysis
• Investment process considers top-down macro factors that can influence investment themes
• Active management of portfolio risk exposures

PLEASE NOTE: The Internal Guidelines referenced do not necessarily represent prospectus/statutory limitations. These internal guidelines are used as guidance in the daily management of the Portfolio's investments. These guidelines are subject to change and should not be relied upon as a long term view of the Portfolio's exposures, limitations, and/or risks.

Why Amundi US?

The Strategy is managed within a strong fixed income investment culture focused on sound, fundamental research. Key features of the Amundi US Investment Grade Corporate Credit Strategy include:

• We seek to build portfolios that generate attractive returns per unit of risk, emphasizing sector and security selection, rather than macro-positioning
• Emphasis on forward-looking, rather than historic, measures of value
• Real-time market price driven insights add discipline to the decision process
• Fundamental credit analysis and experience is a vital part of the credit underwriting process
• Lead Portfolio Manager has over 20 years of experience across the corporate credit market spectrum