A disciplined, top-down, discretionary, and repeatable investment process
Our investment approach
Principal Finisterre is an experienced team dedicated to finding opportunities within the diversified emerging market universe through various market cycles. We are unconstrained, flexible, adaptive, and independent specialist investors in EMD, offering total return and diversified income strategies to a wide range of investors.
A disciplined, top-down, discretionary, and repeatable investment process
Fundamental analysis is subject to the risk that unexpected factors may dominate the market causing distortions. Principal Finisterre may modify its investment approach (including investment themes), portfolio allocations and geographical and sector exposures at any time in any manner that it believes is consistent with its overall investment objective without notice to investors.
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To help you diversify your opportunities, we continually review fixed income markets to identify and offer strategies to meet your objectives.
Finisterre Emerging Markets Debt Total Return
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.
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Our fixed income investment teams have a track record of solving for a wide range of personalized investor objectives.
Principal Alternative Credit
A seasoned investment team with significant credit investment experience across all major industries and market cycles, focused on providing our global investment base access to private credit solutions.
Principal Fixed Income
A global platform of integrated and specialized teams focused on delivering innovative, actively managed total return and yield-oriented investment solutions through capabilities that span all major fixed income sectors.
Principal Morley
Specializes in managing capital preservation strategies and designing customized stable value solutions through a risk-managed, multi-stage construction approach incorporating a proprietary optimization model.
Spectrum Asset Management
Extensive experience in managing global preferred and capital securities with a robust fundamental credit research approach, including both top-down and bottom-up analyses that lead to selective and thoughtful portfolio construction.
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Past performance does not guarantee future results.
Fixed‐income investment options are subject to interest rate risk, and their value will decline as interest rates rise. International and global investing involves greater risks such as currency fluctuations, political/social instability, and differing accounting standards. Risk is magnified in emerging markets, which may lack established legal, political, business, or social structures to support securities markets. Emerging market debt may be subject to heightened default and liquidity risk. Risk management techniques seek to mitigate or reduce risk but cannot remove it.
Principal Finisterre is an investment team within Principal Global Investors.