Types of investment

Fixed Income

Having the right partner to help you meet your fixed income goals is essential. Whether you’re seeking income, total return or capital preservation, we have the resources and expertise to help you meet these objectives and add value to your portfolios.

  • A global fixed income manager with a strong credit heritage
  • Assets under management of $208bn/€191bn/£168bn*
  • 191 investment professionals with 20 years’ average experience*

Why choose Columbia Threadneedle Investments for fixed income?

Fuelled by research – an intense and independent approach gives us deep knowledge of issuer and industry dynamics with the aim of driving strong, sustainable returns.

Our size is to your advantage – we have the global presence and scale to access markets and forensically assess issuers yet are nimble enough to extract value from security selection.

Built on a powerful line-up – we offer a wide choice of strategies from traditional government and corporate bonds to specialized areas including emerging markets and liability-driven solutions.

Established in impact investing – our social bond funds were the first of their kind and we remain a leading advocate in the development of the fast-moving green and social bond markets.**

* Source: Columbia Threadneedle Investments, data as at 31 March 2023.

** UK Social Bond strategy was launched in December 2013 and the European Social Bond strategy was launched in May 2017.

Focus funds

CT (Lux) European Social Bond

The Fund aims to provide income with the potential to grow the amount you invested over the medium term by investing in bonds that are considered to support or fund socially beneficial activities and development mainly in Europe.

CT (Lux) European High Yield Bond

The Fund aims to provide income with the potential to grow the amount you invested over the medium to long term.

CT (Lux) European Corporate Bond

The Fund aims to provide income with the potential to grow the amount you invested over the medium term.

CT (Lux) Global Corporate Bond

The Fund aims to provide income with the potential to grow the amount you invested over the medium term.

CT (Lux) US High Yield Bond

The Fund aims to provide income with the potential to grow the amount you invested over the long term.

CT (Lux) Responsible Euro Corporate Bond

The objective is to achieve an above average rate of return over the long term measured in Euro. The Fund invests only in assets which meet the Fund’s predefined ethical and environmental, social and governance (ESG) screening criteria.

Insights

30 September 2024

Fixed Income Desk

In Credit - Weekly Snapshot

In Credit Weekly Snapshot – September 2024

Our fixed income team provide their weekly snapshot of market events.
27 September 2024

Gregory Turnbull Schwartz

Senior Analyst, Fixed Income

Boeing bonds bound to bounce back?

With $60 billion of outstanding corporate bonds, the business is among the largest non-financial IG issuers, and it wants to reduce its leverage. But with that being unlikely anytime soon, investors have a decision to make.
23 September 2024

Albertine Pegrum-Haram

Senior Associate, Responsible Investment

Claire Robbs

CFA, Credit Analyst, Investment Grade Credit Research

Robert Whitworth

CFA, Equity Analyst, Fundamental Research Team

Can the demand for critical minerals be met responsibly?

A secure and consistent supply of critical minerals is fundamental to the energy transition and to achieving net-zero, but demand is putting pressure on supply chains and costs, and risks polarising sentiment around the energy transition.
Read time - 7 min
16 September 2024

Shengsheng Zhang

Director, Quant Strategist

Yu-Ting Fu

Associate, Corporate Governance Analyst

How does board gender diversity affect stock risk?

Companies with insufficient board gender diversity have higher idiosyncratic risk, so how can portfolio managers go about mitigating this?
Read time - 8 min
20 August 2024

Fixed Income Desk

In Credit - Weekly Snapshot

In Credit Weekly Snapshot – August 2024

Our fixed income team provide their weekly snapshot of market events.
Read time - 5 min
14 August 2024

Kate Moreton

Emerging Market Sovereign Analyst

Seizing value in emerging market debt

Strong growth outlooks are counterbalanced by fiscal headwinds and above-target inflation, requiring a nuanced approach to capture value in emerging market debt.
Read time - 3 min
8 August 2024

Alasdair Ross

Head of Investment Grade Credit, EMEA

No winners in the Thames Water travails

As an arms-length owner of Thames Water could HM Government improve operational performance and deliver benefits to UK taxpayers?
Read time - 5 min
31 July 2024

Fixed Income Desk

In Credit - Weekly Snapshot

In Credit Weekly Snapshot – July 2024

Our fixed income team provide their weekly snapshot of market events.
Read time - 5 min
9 July 2024

Laura Reardon

Client Portfolio Manager, Emerging Market Debt

Dispelling the myths around emerging market debt

Emerging markets today bear little resemblance to those rocked by financial crises in the 1980s and 1990s, with the asset class diversified across geography, investment grade, high yield, sovereigns and corporates
Read time - 3 min

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