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• The fund posted a positive performance over the period.• We have mainly benefited from our investments in the financial, energy and real estate sectors, both in IG and HY, in developed and emerging countries. • We can also point out the good performance of our restructuring portfolio. • Last, our structured credit bucket (c.18.5% of our assets at the end of June) continued to perform positively over the period.
• We stick to our fundamental view and defensive carry strategy.• 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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Market environment
• Geopolitical events in June did not affect markedly credit markets.• After a record issuance in May, the primary market activity remained strong in June.