Amundi Fds Glbl Aggt Bd G EUR H C

Analyst Report
Morningstar's Take
|11/01/2024

by Jeana Marie Doubell
Amundi Global Aggregate Bond has seen several changes to its leading and supporting cast over the last two years, and its risk-management approach has not always been consistent, limiting our conviction to Average People and Process Pillar ratings.

In October 2022, Laurent Crosnier ended his eight-year tenure as lead portfolio manager here and as CIO of Amundi UK in order to take over leadership of the firm’s foreign-exchange platform. Corporate bond market veteran Grégoire Pesquès, who previously led Amundi’s global credit business, replaced Crosnier here and in the CIO role. While Pesquès is the final decision-maker on the strategy, three additional portfolio managers were formally named to the roster in June 2023. These include credit specialist Nicolas Dahan, rates and currency specialist Rajesh Puri (both of whom have already contributed to this fund for several years), and Reine Bitar, who joined Amundi in 2023 with 15 years’ experience in global bond investing.



The fund’s process remains heavily top-down-driven. Portfolio construction relies on strategic views expressed by a committee made up of Pesquès, Crosnier, and six other senior portfolio managers, but the managers have leeway to select individual securities and to shift the portfolio’s exposures tactically to take advantage of shorter-term trade ideas. The fund’s active risk-taking versus the U.S.-dollar-hedged Bloomberg Global Aggregate Bond Index is expected to be roughly evenly split across rates, credit, and currency strategies. This powerful mix was mostly additive under Crosnier’s watch, though it often struggled in risk-off periods, and the strategy’s volatility occasionally exceeded the team’s stated targets.

Since Pesquès took over the strategy, the fund has so far outpaced its benchmark, though an underweighting in duration and an overweighting in credit risk at the start of 2023 held it back relative to most category peers that year. In all, it is too early in the new management team’s tenure to assess whether the strategy’s risk profile going forward will differ from its past one.

 
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