Competitive advantages
M&G is one of the largest fixed income investors in Europe and has extensive experience in sourcing attractive fixed income assets. Our unrivalled credit research resources and coverage of the fixed income universe help us to identify attractive investment opportunities. We have been able to turn these opportunities into a track record of consistent outperformance through our experience of managing fixed income risk over many cycles – and a disciplined investment process.
We believe we offer the following competitive advantages:
- Specialist focus – we are a profitable fund manager specialising in fixed income for institutional clients and are backed by a highly rated parent company. Credit remains our core capability, but we are known for our ability to innovate in fixed income and have led the market in private debt development
- Benefits of scale – we are one of the largest euro and sterling corporate bond investors and have extensive experience in finding attractive fixed income assets. As one of the larger investors, our scale of investment benefits our clients leading to demonstrably superior allocations in attractive new issues and the access to structure deals to our clients’ advantage
- In depth research and internal ratings – we employ a credit research team which we believe is one of the largest and most experienced in Europe. Our analysts track relevant issuers within their sector and will drill down to that issuer’s individual securities if it is considered to be a useful exercise. Individual analysts are not limited to a set number of issuers or securities to track – the average number of issuers tracked per analyst is around 80 – including those in areas that many other investment management companies do not cover, such as securitisations and unrated securities
- Active shaping of the market – longer-term benefits accrue from our active participation in industry bodies and bond holder groups, particularly in the case of potential default or restructuring
- Consistent performance – experience of managing fixed income risk over many cycles, coupled with a disciplined investment process, have allowed us to turn opportunities into a track record of consistent outperformance.
To find out more about our public and private debt offering and where we are outperforming the market, please get in touch with us.