Our approach
In our view the active management of convertibles is best achieved by a dedicated, specialist team that has the experience to exploit the many inefficiencies that are inherent in the market. The team adopts both a top-down and fundamentally driven, bottom-up approach with the flexibility to invest across a global opportunity set to help capture these inefficiencies and pricing anomalies.
Potential benefits
As a liquid alternative, our convertibles-based strategies can have numerous advantages when included in a balanced portfolio.
Key risks
For further information on the risks and risk profiles of our funds, please refer to the relevant KIID and Prospectus.
The value of an investment and any income from it can go down as well as up and can fluctuate in response to changes in currency and exchange rates. Investors may not get back the original amount invested.
Global convertibles strategies
Aviva Investors Global Convertibles Strategy
An actively managed, long-only strategy that aims to capture the asymmetric return profile of balanced convertible bonds.
Aviva Investors Global Convertibles Absolute Return Strategy
A market-neutral strategy targeting steady returns with low volatility in all market conditions.
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Supporting literature
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Aviva Investors - Global Convertibles Absolute Return Fund - Fund in Brief
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Aviva Investors - Global Convertibles Fund - Fund in Brief
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An Introduction to Convertibles
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The case for actively managing convertible bond portfolios
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Convertible bonds in an absolute return context
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