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Fixed income investment team

Principal Finisterre

Emerging market debt (EMD) specialists with a time-tested, unconstrained approach to investing across the full EMD landscape.
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
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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.
Explore our featured strategy.

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.
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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.

ESG integration is considered across all actively managed asset classes, with the approach determined by each investment group’s process. This information is specific to the strategies managed by the individuals providing this content and various investment teams across Principal may have differing views of this approach.

Principal Finisterre is an investment team within Principal Global Investors.