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Join us virtually on 8 March 2022 at the Investment Forum Hong Kong
Company profile
Vontobel Asset Management is an active asset manager with global reach and a multi-boutique approach. Each of our boutiques draws on specialized investment talent, a strong performance culture and robust risk management. We deliver leading-edge solutions for both institutional and private clients.
Our commitment to active management empowers us to invest on the basis of our convictions. We deliver value through our diverse and highly specialized teams. Employing around 400 professionals worldwide – including 160 investment specialists – we operate across thirteen locations including Switzerland, Europe and the US and create strategies and solutions covering equities, fixed income, multi-asset and alternative investments.
The goal of achieving excellent and repeatable performance has been fundamental to our approach since 1988. A strong and stable shareholder structure guarantees our entrepreneurial independence and protects the long-term mindset that guides our decision-making.
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Speaker
Adrian Bender
Client portfolio manager, Vontobel Asset Management
Adrian Bender joined Vontobel Asset Management as client portfolio manager in July 2016. In this role, he is the focal point for all marketing and sales related work streams for the Fixed Income Opportunities and Emerging Markets Bonds franchises, addressing queries as well as representing the portfolio managers in client meetings.
Prior to joining Vontobel, from 2010 to 2016, he was a senior product specialist at Amundi in London and responsible for Global Fixed Income (Emerging Markets Debt, Global Credit, Global Sovereign), Absolute Return and Forex assets. Most recently, he was head of the GFI product specialists at Amundi, serving sales managers and their institutional, distribution, insurance and corporate investors globally. Adrian has more than 20 years of industry experience, having worked in client facing and product specialist roles at Banque Credit Lyonnais, Credit Agricole and Amundi in Paris and London.
Adrian holds a BA in European Business Administration from Middlesex University – ESC Reims (CESEM).
4:05pm – Emerging markets corporate bond
With inherent inefficiencies, EM corporate bonds offer higher risk-adjusted returns at shorter duration, and becomes especially attractive in an environment of rising rates.
With years of consistent hunting for global relative value and event-driven opportunities, Vontobel EM Corporates strategy dedicates to deliver absolute return-oriented, low-correlated and idiosyncratic alpha among other assets.
Strategy profile
Vontobel Emerging Markets Corporate Bond Fund is an actively managed and unleveraged fund with two sources of return, namely Spread Optimization and Spread Diversification. The fund is a short duration fund which tends to hold rate-insensitive positions, and focuses on mispriced credit. The PM team remains active during volatile markets. The strategy is a blend of value driven and event driven, and this keeps both interest rate sensitivity and empirical duration low relative to benchmark.
