Vontobel has launched a three-year fixed-maturity emerging market bond fund to offer investors an opportunity to capitalise on higher yields and the prospect of declining US interest rates.
The Vontobel Fund II - Fixed Maturity Emerging Markets Bond 2 invests mainly in emerging market bonds in hard currencies and aims to offer a higher spread, yield and coupon relative to comparable bonds in developed markets. It also focuses on optimising the level of spread in short-maturity emerging market bonds. LGIM expands global high yield range with trio of regional funds With a fixed maturity of three years, the Luxembourg-domiciled fund targets an average investment grade rating and a target yield maturity of 7%, depending on market evolution. The seeding period for the f...
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