Schroder ISF Glb InflLnkdBd B Acc EUR

Analyst Report
Morningstar's Take
|07/09/2023

by Jeana Marie Doubell
The Schroder ISF Global Inflation Linked Bond fund has been placed Under Review as Schroders moves to restructure the fixed-income team by combining the credit and currency teams together. The impact of these changes on this fund's portfolio management team and investment process are not yet clear.
 
Schroder ISF Global Inflation Linked Bond recently underwent changes to its manager roster and a restructuring of its investment team. While the dust settles on the significant team and process changes that have been implemented thus far, the fund earns Average People and Process Pillar ratings for now.

In July 2023, Schroders’ London-based credit and global rates and currencies teams were combined into a single group under the leadership of credit chief Julien Houdain, who was also named as a co-lead manager on this strategy. Paul Grainger, who previously led the rates and currency team and who had served as this strategy’s lead manager for eight years, relinquished both positions at the end of July 2023. Currency expert Robbie Boukhoufane, who had helped manage the strategy since 2021, also stepped down. James Ringer, who joined as a comanager here in 2020 and has been largely responsible for the fund’s day-to-day management since then, has remained on the fund and now serves as its co-lead manager alongside Houdain, bringing some continuity to an otherwise new management cohort. However, this remains a team-based approach, with Houdain and Ringer supported here by three rates and currency portfolio managers, a five-member quantitative analyst team, and two macro strategists. The rates managers can now also leverage the expertise of three credit portfolio managers within the team. But, considering the uptick in recent turnover, and significant changes to reporting lines, the combined team will require more time to settle into their new roles.

New team head Houdain has made several enhancements to the implementation of top-down macro calls within the investment process. The group's investment forum, where macro views are formulated, will now occur monthly rather than quarterly to prompt more frequent reviews of changes in economic indicators and themes, and it will be supported by an in-house asset allocation model. This model was originally developed by the credit team, and so its efficacy regarding rates and currency strategies within developed sovereign markets has yet to be seen.

Over previous lead manager Grainger’s eight-year tenure, from June 2015 through June 2023, the team's active macro overlays added value and helped land the strategy ahead of its average global inflation-linked bond Morningstar Category peer for six of the past eight years. However, the fund has yet to prove its ability to deliver benchmark-beating returns and struggles to stand out against low-cost passive competitors in its category over the long term.
 
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ParentAbove Average
ProcessAverage
 
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