ultra low duration range.
The Ultra Low Duration range comprises Luxembourg and Swiss-domiciled Sub-Funds that target steady income above the money market rate while aiming to meet investors’ liquidity needs1.
LOIM’s conservative credit strategy seeks to provide this flexibility by investing across a broad universe of traditional fixed income instruments.
why invest?
A conservative ‘cash-plus’ solution that can maintain a highly liquid portfolio.
We draw on lessons from pre-2008 short term bond funds to try to create this diversified cash strategy – one with a clear liquidity buffer.
combining liquidity management and credit analytics.
Conservative core: With investors’ liquidity needs in mind, the Sub-Funds only invests in highly rated securities. They adopt strict limits on maturity, credit spread duration.
Highly diversified: To minimise volatility, the team sets issuer and geographic concentration limits and pays close attention to factors such as deal size and market depth.
Enhanced sources of return: The team seeks strategic and ad-hoc opportunities with attractive riskadjusted return potential.2
actively seeking to manage key risks with a broad toolkit.
Key risk | Mitigant | |
Credit default risk | High quality investment grade and crossover credit | |
Credit spread widening risk | Diversification and 3 year maturity limit | |
Liquidity risk | Liquidity buffers | |
Interest rate risk | Mix of floating-rate notes | |
Volatility risk | Short maturity commercial paper |
investment team.
David Callahan |
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Florian Helly |
David and Florian have over 38 years of combined investment experience in cash solutions. They have been managing LOIM’s money market investments over the past decade, within the firm’s broader Fixed Income platform.