Investment Strategies

Opportunities Bond

A flexible bond strategy investing across the corporate credit spectrum

Objective

The Fund aims to achieve long-term capital growth by investing in a broad and flexible range of fixed income opportunities. The Fund invests across the corporate bond spectrum – from investment grade to high yield and non-rated bonds – and may also allocate to other types of fixed income instruments, depending on where we identify the most attractive opportunities.

Philosophy

In our view:

fixed income markets are diverse and continuously evolving, creating opportunities across credit quality, structures and regions;
flexibility across the bond universe allows investors to be able to benefit from changing market conditions and relative value opportunities; and
active management, combined with the systematic integration of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors, is essential to identify risks and opportunities and to support sustainable long-term returns.

Approach

Our experienced investment team follows an active and disciplined investment process that combines top-down and bottom-up analysis and seeks to:

build a diversified portfolio across a wide range of corporate bonds, including investment grade, high yield, subordinated and hybrid instruments, as well as selected other fixed income securities;
actively allocate across credit quality, sectors, instruments and regions without reference to a benchmark;
manage risks dynamically, including interest rate, credit and liquidity risks, while making use of derivatives where appropriate; and
integrate ESG considerations throughout the investment process.

Meet our team

Alain van der Heijden

a.vanderheijden@vanlanschotkempen.com

Joost de Graaf

joost.degraaf@vanlanschotkempen.com

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Fund library

You can invest in one or more of our strategies by investing in related funds or through a tailor-made mandate with our specialists. For more sustainability-related information, please refer to the sustainability-related information section of the fund library. You can also visit the fund library to find detailed information on our funds.

There’s a saying in Dutch, Kom verder, it means many things and it’s our business philosophy. It captures the way we work with clients but also the way we steer our investee companies to deliver shareholder value through active engagement.

Capital at risk. The value of investments and the income from them can fall as well as rise, and investors may not get back the amount originally invested. Past performance provides no guarantee for the future.