
Carmignac P. Credit: Letter from the Fund Managers - Q3 2025
Carmignac Portfolio Credit was up 2.4% vs. 1.1% for the reference indicator during the third quarter, for an outperformance of 1.3% (F EUR Acc shareclass). The fund is up 6.3% for the year at the end of September vs. 3.2% for the reference indicator, for an outperformance of 3.1% (EUR Class A share).
Review of Q3 2025 performance
Almost all the fund’s performance drivers participated to this solid return, with an especially strong contribution from a distressed investment in the healthcare sector. The only detractor was our hedging position, with subtracted (0.79)% year-to-date to the fund’s gross performance.
Credit markets have tightened a lot since the beginning of the year and are now entering expensive territory but while dispersion normally decreases as high yield spreads tighten, it remains at an elevated level. Indeed, in this environment, issues are becoming more difficult to hide in public markets and most investors exit risks they don’t assess well. Hence we still manage to find attractive opportunities, with substantial complexity premia, in order to build an attractive and diversified portfolio.
We can definitely see numerous signs of ebullience, especially in the primary market. Credit incidents are also starting to pick up. Restructurings became more frequent after the spike in cost of capital in 2022 but in the past years they often tended to happen under the guise of disciplined liability management operations that attenuated the immediate pain for creditors and delayed some loss recognition in the future. We are now seeing more proper defaults happening, in a somehow brutal fashion, especially in the US and in Emerging Markets.
We have been several times in this part of the credit cycle in our careers. This is the moment when bond selection, or alpha, becomes crucial. Carmignac Portfolio Credit has added several new attractive positions during the third quarter - while adopting a defensive stance. We lowered both our gross and net high yield exposure in the process and built a cash buffer, focusing on defensive carry. We have no way to know how long this environment will persist, but the good news is that, historically, the longer credit markets stay expensive, the more opportunities we find in the following dislocation. We are especially excited about the potential for future outsized returns in special situations and restructurings as many of the ill-fitted balance sheets that built up during the decade preceding 2022 are still due for proper adjustments.
Our underwriting standards remain strict and we always stress-test our investment theses for risky dependences to unreliable markets on the demand or supply side, as well as the capacity to absorb input cost volatility. We feel confident about the ability for the portfolio to weather this environment of heightened trade and political uncertainty. Natural resources, financial services and CLO tranches remain our largest capital allocations and we still see fertile ground there for alpha generation. We have been investing constantly in the natural resources sector over the past decade, generating alpha regularly. The ability to withstand commodity price volatility is a key criteria selection for our positions in this corner of the economy. The financial institutions we invest in combine healthy liquidity and capitalization as well as disciplined underwriting and should withstand a recession without major issues. Finally, our CLO exposure stands at c. 8.2%. We have actively selected CLO tranches with more defensive risk characteristics, namely instruments with shorter spread duration and/or high coupons, and our exposure is well diversified across over 45 tranches.
Outlook
As we write, Carmignac Portfolio Credit’s portfolio sports a gross yield of 5.7% for a BBB- rating. As discussed above, we maintain a defensive stance with a 16.1% hedging position through CDS on high-yield indices, resulting in a conservative 21.6% net high yield exposure. Adjusted for the cost of hedging, the portfolio’s yield is closer to 5% and the rating higher up in investment grade territory. We remain opportunistic and keep an attractive portfolio, well diversified, with more than 250 bonds from more than 150 issuers, which should mitigate the impact of potential accidents.
In conclusion, we think our selective bond picking, high level of diversification and prudent positioning should help us generate attractive returns in the late stage of this credit cycle, while maintaining the optionality to seize the opportunities that will result from potential market corrections .
Carmignac Portfolio Credit F EUR Acc
- Aanbevolen minimale beleggingstermijn
- 3 jaar
- SFDR-fondscategorieën**
- Artikel 6
- Risicoschaal*

*Risicocategorie van het KID (essentiële-informatiedocument) indicator. Risicocategorie 1 betekent niet dat een belegging risicoloos is. Deze indicator kan in de loop van de tijd veranderen. **De Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) 2019/2088. De SFDR-classificatie van de fondsen kan in de loop van de tijd veranderen.
Voornaamste risico's van het Fonds
Kosten
- Instapkosten
- Wij brengen geen instapkosten in rekening.
- Uitstapkosten
- Wij brengen voor dit product geen uitstapkosten in rekening.
- Beheerskosten en andere administratie - of exploitatiekos ten
- 0,80% van de waarde van uw belegging per jaar. Dit is een schatting op basis van de feitelijke kosten over het afgelopen jaar.
- Prestatievergoedingen
- 20,00% wanneer het rendement van de aandelenklasse over de prestatieperiode hoger is dan dat van de referentie-indicator. Deze prestatievergoeding is ook verschuldigd als de aandelenklasse beter
heeft gepresteerd dan de referentie-indicator, maar een negatief rendement heeft behaald. Een eventuele minderprestatie wordt
over een periode van 5 jaar goedgemaakt. Het feitelijke bedrag zal
variëren naargelang van de prestaties van uw belegging. De schatting van de totale kosten hierboven omvat het gemiddelde over de afgelopen vijf jaar, of sinds de introductie van het product als dat minder dan vijf jaar geleden is
- Transactiekosten
- 0,23% van de waarde van uw belegging per jaar. Dit is een schatting van de kosten die ontstaan wanneer we de onderliggende beleggingen voor het product kopen en verkopen. Het feitelijke bedrag zal variëren naargelang hoeveel we kopen en verkopen.
Rendement
| Carmignac Portfolio Credit | +6,3 | +8,6 | +10,9 | −12,7 | +3,4 | +10,8 | +20,9 |
| Referentie-indicator | +3,2 | +5,7 | +9,0 | −13,3 | +0,1 | +2,8 | +7,5 |
| Carmignac Portfolio Credit | +9,6% | +4,1% | +6,7% |
| Referentie-indicator | +6,7% | +1,2% | +2,0% |
Bron: Carmignac op 30 sep. 2025.
Datum van de eerste NAV : 31/12/2018.
In het verleden behaalde resultaten zijn geen garantie voor de toekomst. De resultaten zijn netto na aftrek van kosten (inclusief mogelijke in rekening gebrachte instapkosten door de distributeur) . Het fonds houdt een risico op kapitaalverlies in.
Het rendement kan stijgen of dalen als gevolg van valutaschommelingen voor de aandelen die niet valutadekkend zijn.
Referentie-indicator: 75% ICE BofA Euro Corporate Index + 25% ICE BofA Euro High Yield index. Frequentie van herweging: Driemaandelijks
