Manulife Strategic Income Fund
A global multi-sector fixed-income fund focused on delivering consistent, attractive returns across different market environments by navigating beyond domestic borders with the goal of capturing returns beyond traditional fixed income.
Overview: an active, unconstrained approach to fixed-income investing
Targeting returns beyond traditional fixed income
Harvest opportunities across the global credit spectrum with the goal of delivering attractive returns while adhering to the lower volatility expectations of a domestic mandate
Enhance portfolio diversification
Seeks to overcome home-country bias and benchmark-driven concentration risks through active currency management, geographic diversification, and allocations to sectors with low correlations
Robust risk management
An investment process that prioritizes capital preservation, supported by established guidelines and continuous monitoring to mitigate drawdowns, preserve liquidity, and navigate market volatility
Seasoned, institutional-level expertise
On average, the investment team has more than 25 years of experience managing portfolios for retail and institutional investors, and is skilled in combining macro-trends with bottom-up research
Strategically speaking with Christopher M. Chapman, CFA
Chris shares insight on Manulife Strategic Income Fund, including the team’s investment process and risk mitigation.
Market coverage that extends beyond the trading week
Financial markets work to a five-day week. Opportunity doesn’t. With team members across three continents, the team is able to maintain active coverage throughout the global trading week, monitoring, analyzing, and positioning. When trading resumes, the team’s already exactly where they want to be.
Learn more about Manulife Global Multi-Sector Fixed-Income TeamInvestment process
Active investing: what it means in practice:
- Start with the big picture: The team begins by assessing global interest rates, credit markets, currencies, and overall liquidity conditions.
- Target the best opportunities: A forward-looking scorecard is then used to highlight the most compelling investment opportunities
- Drill down for value: A bottom-up research process identifies relative value by sector and security, with duration and currency exposures actively adjusted as market conditions evolve.
Dynamic sector allocation
An active approach to mitigating risks
Managing interest-rate risk
Chris Chapman speaks to the team’s prudent approach—being dynamic when managing interest-rate risk
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Managing credit risk
Chris Chapman explains how the fund's investment process helps the team mitigate credit risk
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Managing currency risk
Chris Chapman speaks how active currency management can be a risk mitigator, a diversifier, and an alpha generator.
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Managing liquidity risk
Chris Chapman talks about how the liquidity decision is built into the team’s investment process.
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