Manulife | CQS Investment Management
A global alternative credit specialist
A specialist in global alternative credit
Manulife | CQS Investment Management (MCQS) has been managing research-driven credit strategies for over 20 years through multiple market cycles, providing investors income across liquid and semi-liquid alternative credit strategies. The depth of MCQS’s fundamental research and the breadth of its multi-sector alternative credit platform offers the firm’s investment teams important insight into asset class relative value.
CAD$23.3B
assets under management in alternative credit strategies1
~45
investment professionals across the platform1
25+
years of managing research-driven alternative credit strategies1
1 Manulife | CQS Investment Management, as of June 30, 2025.
Why MCQS
MCQS has a performance and client-driven culture that prioritizes building enduring partnerships with clients, with high levels of client service and mandates tailored for investors’ long-term, risk-adjusted return goals.
Specialized approach
Investing across global liquid and semi-liquid strategies, identifying opportunities to help capitalize on asset class relative value
Research-driven investment
Focus on lending to the right businesses, ensuring capital is in the right asset class, geography, and sector
Downside risk mitigation
A bottom-up research process designed to help avoid defaults and mitigate periods of economic and geopolitical uncertainty
Focusing on income:
navigating market cycles with multi-asset credit strategies
Leaning on income as a buffer against volatility is an important goal for multi-asset credit strategies. Learn how they work.
European credit―an income investor’s best-kept secret?
Credit investors have tended to prioritize the U.S. assets over their European peers, but data shows that European credits have consistently delivered higher returns. Might investors be missing a trick?
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Important disclosures
Important disclosures
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