Principal Fixed Income investment team

Fixed income investment team

Principal Fixed Income

Global platform with capabilities spanning all major fixed income sectors, focused on delivering solutions to personalized investment objectives.

Our investment approach

Principal Fixed Income has experience that spans all major fixed income sectors and partners with clients to establish standard and custom solutions to achieve personalized objectives. Our globally integrated platform, with specialized teams worldwide and over 100 investment professionals, helps to directly access global fixed income markets and deliver comprehensive investment perspectives.

Our platform’s structure and proprietary investment tools foster cross-sector collaboration amongst sector-specialty teams. This diversity of insight helps each team formulate richer investment theses and make better-informed investment decisions.

Informed portfolio decisions from cross-sector collaboration

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Explore our featured fixed income strategies.

To help you diversify your opportunities, we continually review fixed income markets to identify and offer strategies to meet your objectives.

Sustainable investing documents

Principal Fixed Income: ESG Principles (PDF)

Get to know our fixed income investment teams.

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 Finisterre

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

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 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.

Get the latest insights

Fixed income

Multi-sector monthly commentary

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A timely review of market conditions, our fixed income outlook, and current positioning themes.

May 5, 2026

Fixed income

Off quarter outlook

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Markets don’t wait for quarter-end, and neither should we. This intra-quarter outlook is designed to provide timely insights helping investors position portfolios between traditional reporting milestones.

March 10, 2026

Fixed income

2Q 2026 Fixed Income Perspectives

Themes, outlook, and investment implications across global fixed income markets.

April 13, 2026

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.

ESG criteria may present additional advantages or risks and does not protect against market risks or volatility. You should not make any investment assumptions based solely on the information contained herein. There is no assurance that any ESG component in our investing strategy will be successful.

Principal Fixed Income is an investment team within Principal Global Investors.