Canadian fixed income team
Headquartered in Toronto, with one member situated in Montreal, Manulife Investment Management’s 11-person-strong Canadian fixed-income team is led by Roshan Thiru, Head of Canadian Fixed Income. The team is responsible for managing over CAD$30 billion* in assets.
The Canadian fixed-income difference
- Well-seasoned fixed-income team—The 11-person team has an average of 20 years’ experience and expertise across the full spectrum of the fixed-income asset class and is led by Roshan Thiru.
- Stringent risk management—While the team covers a wide variety of mandates, their singular goal is to deliver income and capital preservation through risk-conscious active management focused on sector and security selection.
- Strong presence in the Canadian fixed income market—Size, reputation, and trading volume ensure that Manulife Investment Management receives generous consideration in the new issue market and timely calls in the secondary market.
Get to know the Manulife Canadian fixed-income team
The team operates in a boutique environment where they own their investment process, from research to implementation to results achieved, but benefit from the global resources of Manulife Investment Management (MIM), one of Canada’s largest fixed-income players. The firm’s size, reputation, and trading volume ensure that the team receives generous consideration in the new issue market and timely calls in the secondary market.
A consistent theme employed among all of the team’s strategies is to deliver investors income and capital preservation through a risk-conscious active management approach focused on careful sector and security selection.
Meet the team behind the funds
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Important disclosure
Team members and responsibilities listed are as of October 1, 2020.
Investment process
The team looks at relative opportunity within fixed-income, equity, and alternative asset classes, then searches issue by issue to find the best opportunities from a risk/reward perspective.
Step 1: Seeks to identify attractive sectors
Step 2: Looks at individual securities for best opportunities
The end result is a portfolio designed to achieve intended objectives under a stringent risk management framework.
Important disclosure
Portfolio managers may use some or all of the techniques described. No investment strategy or risk management technique can guarantee returns or eliminate risk in any market environment. Characteristics, guidelines, and constraints are for illustrative purposes only. They may change at any time and may differ for a specific account.
Our funds/pools
Segregated funds
- Manulife Balanced Income Private Segregated Pool
- Manulife Bond GIF Select
- Ideal Canadian Unconstrained Bond Fund
- Manulife Corporate Bond GIF Select
- Manulife Corporate Fixed Income Private Segregated Pool
- Ideal Money Market Fund
- Manulife Yield Opportunities GIF Select
Investors rely on us to deliver the stated objectives of the Funds we manage. We view this as keeping our promises to them.
Important disclosure
* As of September 30, 2020 CAD.
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