Investment Options

Fixed Income

We offer fixed income solutions with various risk and return objectives that range from traditional asset classes to more specialist areas such as emerging market debt, securitised debt and social bonds.

Our global fixed income research team is resourced to provide a balance between detailed due diligence of issuers and a clear vision of market and sector trends. Credit selection is key, with our research experts conducting proprietary, bottom-up company analysis and sharing insights to achieve better outcomes for our clients.

Portfolio managers follow a flexible approach to portfolio construction, combining top-down and bottom-up analysis to enable us to respond to challenges posed by structural changes in demographics, globalisation and geopolitics, as well as the evolution of the credit cycle.

Why choose Columbia Threadneedle for fixed income?

Our 199-strong global Fixed Income team is split between research, portfolio management and support teams, as well as a dedicated trading function. With this scale of resources managing $247 billion in assets, we have the global presence to conduct thorough analysis of bond issuers yet retain the ability to deliver returns from security selection. *

Responsible investment (RI) is embedded within our investment process and we have developed proprietary tools that provide a robust RI framework and better analysis for portfolio managers. Columbia Threadneedle is also a pioneer in impact investing and has been a leading advocate in the development of the burgeoning green and social bond markets.

* Source: Columbia Threadneedle Investments, data as at 31 March 2022.

21 March 2023

Bond market breakdown: bumper start to year sees broader issuance

Year-to-date issuance is at $184 billion – which is 78% larger than 2018’s total issuance
Read time - 3 min
21 March 2023

Fixed Income Desk

In Credit - Weekly Snapshot

In Credit Weekly Snapshot – March 2023

Our fixed income team provide their weekly snapshot of market events.
Read time - 3 min
28 February 2023

Fixed Income Desk

In Credit - Weekly Snapshot

In Credit Weekly Snapshot – February 2023

Our fixed income team provide their weekly snapshot of market events.
Read time - 3 min
31 January 2023

Fixed Income Desk

In Credit - Weekly Snapshot

In Credit Weekly Snapshot – January 2023

Our fixed income team provide their weekly snapshot of market events.
Read time - 3 min
27 January 2023

Tammie Tang

Senior Portfolio Manager, Fixed Income

UK Social Bond Fund

Senior Portfolio Manager Tammie Tang on the launch of this pioneering fund, its objectives and the evolution of the bond market.
Watch time - 9 min
27 January 2023

Justin Ong

Senior Research Analyst, Asian Corporate Debt

Chuanyi Zhou

Asia Corporate Analyst

Firmer foundations for China’s property market in 2023

The Chinese property sector has been in the headlines over the past year, and not for the right reasons.
Read time - 6 min

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