Schroder ISF Glb Convert Bd B Acc USD

Analyst Report
Morningstar's Take
|01/12/2023

by Evangelia Gkeka
Schroder ISF Global Convertible Bond benefits from a very experienced portfolio manager who has been at its helm since inception. The straightforward bottom-up approach has seen success against peers, but the index in this space is a tough hurdle to beat.

Peter Reinmuth has more than two decades of experience managing convertible-bond portfolios and has managed this strategy since 2008, initially through a subadvisory agreement between Fisch AM and Schroders, before moving to Schroders in 2013. The team around him has been gradually built up and currently includes one fund manager, one junior fund manager, two assistant fund managers, two traders, and one product specialist. We note that the team’s workload is high as it runs other portfolios alongside this strategy. Still, Reinmuth’s wealth of experience in the asset class and his extensive tenure on this product drive our conviction on the People Pillar side. Reinmuth also makes good use of Schroders’ broader team of corporate credit and equity analysts.

The approach is based primarily on security selection. The team first screens the global convertible-bond universe to retain only sufficiently liquid securities, and any bond vetoed by Schroders’ corporate credit team is excluded. From the remaining list, the managers select the most attractive convertible bonds within each region, based on the valuation of the underlying stocks as well as their technical characteristics.

The managers are unafraid to tilt the portfolio toward more equity-sensitive convertibles, and its delta has typically been 3 percentage points higher than the index’s over the team’s tenure (though it has been more in line compared with the index in recent years). The strategy’s objective is to outperform its Refinitiv Global Focus Hedged CB TR USD Index primarily on the upside. Since inception in 2013 to the end of October 2023, the clean share class has marginally underperformed its benchmark, partially driven by underperformance in the 2022 bear market. However, over the same period, the strategy has outpaced its peers. The bias toward higher-delta securities has translated into a higher volatility, but given its strong returns during positive periods for the market, the strategy still outperforms peers on a risk-adjusted basis over the period.
 
Morningstar Medalist Rating™A higher risk option in the global convertible bonds universe.
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Morningstar Pillars
PeopleAbove Average
ParentAbove Average
ProcessAbove Average
 
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