The fund posted a positive performance over the period, benefiting from its generous carry and defensive positioning.
We have benefited from our investments in the financial and energy sectors, both in IG and HY, in developed and emerging countries.
Our structured credit bucket (c.17% of our assets at the end of August) continued to perform positively over the period.
We continue to benefit from dispersion and attractive opportunities across the credit spectrum.
We favor high yield tranches of European CLOs, which offer some of the best risk rewards across global credit and pay floating rates, protecting us against interest rate volatility.
Other large allocations include financials, issuers in the natural resources space as well as the reorganized equity received in the context of a distressed debt investment.
The bond portfolio yield is now close to 9% (average rating BB-).
The fund runs with close to no leverage at the moment and retains the full flexibility to take advantage of potential future volatility.
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