MoneyAM Fund Centre

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Fund Objective

The Fund aims to provide income with the prospect of some investment growth over the long term. It looks to outperform the J.P. Morgan Government Bond Index Global (GBI Global) over rolling 3-year periods, after the deduction of charges. The Fund is actively managed, and invests at least two-thirds of its assets in bonds issued or guaranteed by governments, government agencies or quasi-government entities worldwide. In addition, the Fund may invest in other bonds, including bonds issued by companies. The Fund usually selects bonds that are investment grade, but may include some bonds with a lower credit rating in the portfolio, if this is considered appropriate. The bonds selected may be denominated in various currencies. The Fund may also invest in other assets such as cash and deposits, and hold other funds (including funds managed by Columbia Threadneedle companies) when deemed appropriate. The GBI Global is regarded as an appropriate performance measure of local currency bonds issued by developed market governments. It provides a suitable target benchmark against which Fund performance will be measured and evaluated over time.

Fund Managers

Dave Chappell

Dave Chappell is a Senior Portfolio Manager in the interest rate and currency team within Fixed Income and is at the core of US and UK rate and economic forecasting for the company. Dave manages a broad range of US and UK fixed income mandates for numerous insurance companies. He also manages a number of global government portfolios.Dave joined the company in 1997 when Scudder Investments became part of Threadneedle Asset Management Limited. He joined Scudder Investments as a fixed income dealer, and in 1997 became an Insurance Asset Portfolio Manager.He started his career in 1987 at Royal Bank of Scotland as an Operations Supervisor before moving to Irving Trust company as an Operations Manager.

Adrian Hilton

Adrian joined Columbia Threadneedle Investments in June 2016 as a Fixed Income portfolio manager in the Interest Rates & Currencies team. Prior to this, he spent eight years as a portfolio manager at Brevan Howard Asset Management, where he traded Emerging Markets local rates and currencies.Adrian began his career at the Bank of England in 2000, holding various positions in the Sterling Markets and Foreign Exchange divisions.  He became a portfolio manager in the Bank’s Reserves Management team in 2005 before leaving to join Aberdeen Asset Management in 2007 as a portfolio manager in that firm’s global rates team.  At Aberdeen, he contributed to absolute return rates strategies before joining Brevan Howard in September 2008 at the launch of Brevan Howard’s UCITS absolute return rates strategy.Adrian holds a BA (Hons) in History from the University of Birmingham.