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BlueBay Fixed Income Alternatives

Providing access to emerging trends and vehicles optimized to manage risk and benefit from global market dislocation.

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How alternatives fit into your portfolio

Emerging Market Credit Alpha Strategy

This strategy focuses on a mix of directional and relative value trades across hard currency sovereigns, corporates, and local markets.

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Event Driven Credit Strategy

This strategy targets opportunities in European distressed, stressed, and event-driven credit, with a portfolio concentrated in mid-market corporates.

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Global Securitized Credit Opportunities Strategy

This strategy identifies compelling risk-adjusted opportunities in securitized credit, with a significant allocation to CLOs, RMBS, ABS, and CMBS.

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Global Credit Alpha Long Short Strategy

This strategy employs long and short positions in corporate and sovereign credit, capitalizing on market dispersion and tactical adjustments.

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Global Sovereign Opportunities Strategy

This strategy leverages global macro views on rates, FX, and credit. It adjusts dynamically to macroeconomic trends, with a focus on identifying directional opportunities.

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Multi-Strategy Credit

This approach maintains a balanced allocation between directional, higher-beta strategies like Emerging Markets and Event Driven, and non-directional, relative value strategies such as Investment Grade and Securitized Credit, aiming for risk-adjusted returns in uncertain markets.

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Rethinking credit allocation: Building resilient institutional portfolios

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Featuring Mark Dowding, BlueBay Chief Investment Officer

Wednesday, June 25 | 2:00 - 3:00PM ET

In today’s volatile market environment, many institutional investors find themselves facing concentrated credit exposure and outdated portfolio structures. With rising uncertainty and shifting macroeconomic conditions, investors should consider modernizing fixed income allocations to enhance portfolio durability and long-term resilience. Join us for an in-depth discussion on the changing market landscape, the opportunities and risk this presents and the evolving role of alternative credit in institutional portfolios in this environment.

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Shifting Strategies

A global survey from RBC GAM gathered insights from 450 of the largest institutional investors in the world and highlights how institutions are embracing fixed income hedge funds.

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Why RBC?

As a pioneer in long-short credit management with over two decades of experience, we leverage deep in-house research and tailored risk frameworks to support complex investment strategies and drive growth and diversification.

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BlueBay offers a range of alternative strategies that span the credit spectrum

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