Royal London AM adds short duration corporate bond fund to sustainable range

Shalin Shah and Matt Franklin

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Royal London Asset Management has added a new strategy to its sustainable investment fund range, the Sustainable Short Duration Corporate Bond fund.

The strategy will select bonds with an expected duration of two and a half and three years across a range of economic sectors, prioritising issuers offering traditional bondholder protections wherever possible and reducing potential exposure to downside risk. Borrowers will be based in socially impactful sectors, such as charities, government agencies or privately owned businesses, spanning from social housing charities to community funding banks and utilities playing a part in the energy transition.  Bloomberg adds sustainable bond indices to terminals The fund will be managed by ...

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