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Finisterre EMD Total Return Fund

An active, unconstrained, adaptive, long-biased, multi-EMD strategy that aims to participate in the upside potential of EMD, while seeking to limit downside volatility.

Strategy differentiators

Designed to be an all-weather solution that assesses the full EMD market cycle and allocates across U.S. dollar, sovereign or corporate credit, local currency bonds, and foreign exchange.

EMD-focused investment manager with extensive experience providing solutions within the entire emerging market universe through market cycles.

Innovative portfolio construction process—the team ranks and optimizes EMD performance drivers (cash, income, alpha, and beta assets) with an emphasis on volatility and liquidity.

Strategy facts

Asset class

Fixed income

Manager

Principal Finisterre

Launch date

20 July 2021

APIR PIC

DAM2311AU

Portfolio management
Principal Finisterre

As a specialist emerging market debt manager committed to delivering solutions that can perform in any market condition, we utilize an unconstrained, time-tested approach to managing income, volatility, and liquidity.

damien
Damien Buchet, CFA
Chief Investment Officer - Principal Finisterre
34 years of experience
Christopher Watson
Christopher Watson, CFA
Senior Portfolio Manager
27 years of experience

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This is not a product disclosure statement issued under the Corporations Act.

The Fund is not available to retail clients and is intended primarily for Wholesale Clients. No offer of units in the Fund or invitation to subscribe for units is made to any person unless the person is a Wholesale Client for the purposes of section 761G of the Corporations Act.

Past performance is not indicative of future performance.