Private Fixed Income
Inception Date: 1/1/1996
Benchmark: Barclays Capital US Credit index
Aviva Investors Private Fixed Income Fact Sheet
Description:
Aviva Investors' Private Fixed Income investment strategy focuses on long-term fundamental credit analysis, highly selective and value-oriented asset selection, and the creation of well diversified portfolios.
Private fixed income securities are exempt from SEC registration and may offer negotiable terms and protective covenants. These are marketable securities issued as traditional (Reg. D) or Rule 144a private placements by both public and private companies. Investors and issuers view private fixed income as an attractive alternative due to financing flexibility and transaction economics.
Each portfolio is constructed and managed through Aviva Investors' established team management process, with the goal of designing a portfolio that meets the client’s objectives. The private fixed income team utilizes a bottom-up approach, with a focus on long-term credit fundamentals, deal structure, and relative value. Aviva Investors actively monitors private placement holdings utilizing internal credit models, interaction with company management, financial forecasts, and covenant compliance analysis.
Commentary
According to Aviva Investors data, new issue volume for traditional private fixed income in the fourth quarter
of 2010 was approximately $9 billion. Full-year 2010 issuance volume exceeded $40 billion, a significant increase
over 2009 and a multi-year high for private debt issuance. New issuance volume is expected to remain strong through
the first half of 2011, as well.
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Fact Sheet
Aviva Investors provides detailed composite information including performance and portfolio characteristics on a quarterly basis. Please follow the link to view this quarter's private fixed income fact sheet.
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Investment Process
Aviva Investors seeks to customize investment solutions to the client's objectives, including spread/return objectives, rating agency guidelines and risk parameters. Those objectives are the foundation for our five-phase investment process.
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Research Framework
Aviva Investors uses the FTV framework as the cornerstone of our investment process: Fundamentals, Technicals and Valuations.
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