Name: Kames Absolute Return Bond strategy - Quarter 1 2020 review
Start: 2020-04-14T14:00:00Z
End: 2020-04-14T14:00:28.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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Aegon Asset Management 

We are active global investors. Our 380 investment professionals manage and advise on assets of USD 408 billion (as of June 30, 2020).  

We organize our capabilities around four global investment platforms where we have deep asset-class expertise: Fixed Income, Real Assets, Equities, and Multi-Asset & Solutions. 

We serve a global client-base of pension plans, public funds, insurance companies, banks, wealth managers, family offices and foundations.

After a tumultuous 2020, we look forward the opportunities and threats facing income investors in 2021. 
We would like to invite you to join a live discussion with Vincent McEntegart and Jacob Vijverberg, Co-managers of the Diversified Income strategy and Nick Edwardson, Senior Investment Specialist for Multi Asset. They will provide an update on the portfolio positioning, the strategy’s income profile, and where they find income-generating opportunities amidst the challenges of the current environment. 
Join us on Wednesday 3 February to hear more and take the opportunity to ask any questions you may have.

Live discussion: Diversified Income strategy update and outlook

At Aegon Asset Management, we believe that sustainability can be the cornerstone of sovereign debt portfolio management. Responsible investing enables investors to align their core values within a portfolio and represents a new way to identify future investment challenges and opportunities.

We look forward to welcoming you to our live webinar about sustainability alignment in sovereign debt portfolios. During the webinar Irina Kurochkina & Jesus Martinez (Sovereign debt portfolio managers) will share experiences and conclusions from their research on responsible investing in sovereign bonds. They will discuss the challenges in sustainability assessment of countries as well as the importance of ESG integration as a risk management tool at a portfolio level. Fernand Schürmann, Partnership Relations Director at Aegon AM, will host the webinar.

Beyond ESG integration: Sustainability alignment in Sovereign portfolios.

The outlook for economies and markets is far from certain. What we know is that the market will continue to create opportunities for fundamental bottom-up stock pickers who invest sustainably.

We would like to invite you to join a live webinar with Andrei Kiselev and Malcolm McPartlin, co-managers of the Aegon Global Sustainable Equity Fund. During the webinar, Andrei and Malcolm will share their views on the outlook for 2021 and where they find opportunities in the current market environment. 

Join us on Thursday 14 January to hear more and take the opportunity to ask any questions you may have.

Aegon AM Global Sustainable Equity Fund update

Will dividend cuts prove to be a ‘one off’?  Does the outlook for income investing look more positive in 2021? 
We are delighted to bring together a panel of experts from our investment team to share their views on the current challenges and opportunities for income investors. During a live and interactive debate, they will discuss some of the main issues for income generating assets and the investment implications.

Will 2021 be a year that takes off for income investing?

As we head towards the end of a tumultuous 2020, we focus on the threats and opportunities that high yield investors may face for the remainder of the year and beyond. A backdrop of looming US elections, new waves of Covid-19 and enduring Brexit
 negotiations hold the potential to heighten volatility in risk markets, while providing active high yield managers with exciting opportunities to navigate through the investment universe.

Tom Hanson and Mark Benbow will share their views on the outlook for high yield and how this will impact portfolio

Aegon AM High Yield Strategy update Q3 2020

In a lower (forever?) yield environment, Insurers continue their search for investments that can provide an attractive return on capital. This has led to a growth in new opportunities in Alternative fixed income. Moreover, amidst the recent pandemic and direction of Regulatory travel, ESG and impact considerations have also gained heightened awareness.

Join our host Gerard Moerman, Head of Investment Solutions at Aegon AM, in our latest Insurance Asset Management webinar. He discusses sources of capital efficient return for an insurers portfolio and how these can also achieve positive impact while managing ESG.

Gerard is joined in this webinar by industry experts, Erik Jan van Bergen, CIO at VGZ Health Insurance, and Erik Leseman, Head of Investment Management of Aegon Netherlands, to learn about their experiences, and the challenges faced, when considering allocations to the wider fixed income market and RI focused investments.

This webinar is intended for a European and Asian audience.

Capital efficient alternatives for Insurers with a Responsible Investment focus

Thomas Hanson, European Head of High Yield and Mark Benbow, Investment Manager will give their views on the market and how the team are managing our high yield funds in the current conditions.

AAM/Kames High Yield strategy update

Uncovering attractive new sources of additional yield…that can meet ESG risk and positive impact objectives.
Amidst the recent turmoil, Alternative Fixed Income strategies have continued to generate attractive and stable yields. ESG and impact considerations have also gained heightened relevance through the pandemic. Can we truly meet yield, ESG risk and impact objectives simultaneously?

Join our host, Gerard Moerman, Head of Fiduciary Services & Investment Solutions, in a webinar series as he discusses, together with industry experts, alternative sources of additional yield for client portfolios and how this can lead to a positive impact from an ESG point of view.

Webinar 3: Impact loans with government guarantees
Wednesday July 15, 11.00 – 11.45 CET
Loans with the aim of having a positive impact all bear credit risk. There are however opportunities where this credit risk is taken by a government body, making them “government guaranteed impact loans”. These loans come with an attractive illiquidity premium.
Gerard discusses this market with Brunno Maradei and Jan Willem Wellen, Portfolio Manager Alternative Fixed Income. Together they explore how such a strategy can have a positive impact on society, the environment and your portfolio.

Webinar 1: Where are the opportunities in Asset Backed Securities?
Wednesday July 1, 11.00 – 11.45 CET

Webinar 2: Impactful SME Loans
Wednesday July 8, 11.00 – 11.45 CET

You can register for webinar 1 and 2 via the Aegon Asset Management BrightTALK channel.

Aegon Asset Management Alternative Fixed Income series - Webinar 3

As markets begin to stabilise following the COVID-19 crisis, co- manager of the Kames Strategic Bond strategies, Colin Finlayson discusses where he is seeking value across the fixed income market.

AAM/Kames Strategic Bond strategy update

Many investors have extensive allocations to government and corporate bonds. However as spreads have tightened and yields fallen, some have begun to look for yield in other parts of the fixed income market, such as Asset Backed Securities (ABS), where yields have been less suppressed by the ECB purchase program.

ABS bonds offer secured exposure to a diverse range of consumer credit, for example, mortgages, automobile loans, student loans and credit card receivables. But also some other collateral types, that are not easily investable otherwise. In this session Frank Meijer, Head of Alternative Fixed Income at Aegon Asset Management, will discuss the unique opportunities offered by ABS, including: 

•Attractive yields - European ABS offers higher yield than most other global fixed income asset classes;

• Diversification of risk - ABS bonds have low correlations with most other major asset classes and offer exposure to consumer debt, compared to traditional government and corporate markets; and

• Short duration - ABS bonds are floating-rate bonds, and hence less sensitive to interest rate volatility.
         
At Aegon Asset Management we have a dedicated team of over 20 ABS professionals who manage approximately €15 billion globally, of which €5.2 billion is in European ABS (31 December 2019).

The ABC of European ABS July 1, 2020

Uncovering attractive new sources of additional yield…that can meet ESG risk and positive impact objectives.
Amidst the recent turmoil, Alternative Fixed Income strategies have continued to generate attractive and stable yields. ESG and impact considerations have also gained heightened relevance through the pandemic. Can we truly meet yield, ESG risk and impact objectives simultaneously?

Join our host, Gerard Moerman, Head of Investment Solutions, in a webinar series as he debates with industry experts alternative sources of additional yield for client portfolios and how these can also achieve positive impact while managing ESG risk.
 
This webinar explores what opportunities you can consider in the ABS asset class and how ESG factor analysis can be fully embedded. 
Gerard is joined by Egbert Bronsema, Portfolio Manager European ABS and Brunno Maradei, Global Head Responsible Investments. 
Register for webinar 1 >

Webinar 2: Impactful SME Loans
Wednesday July 8, 11.00 – 11.45 CET

Webinar 3: Impact loans with government guarantees
Wednesday July 15, 11.00 – 11.45 CET

You can register for webinar 2 and 3 via the Aegon Asset Management BrightTALK channel.

Aegon Asset Management Alternative Fixed Income series - Webinar 1

Hopes for a return towards ‘normality’ and unprecedented fiscal and monetary stimulus have outweighed concerns of the economic impact. Recent significant additional measures announced in Europe have further reassured investors and played into a wider sectoral and geographic rotation within markets. The risk rally remains intact, for now.  

We would like to invite you to join a live webinar with Vincent McEntegart, Co-manager of the Diversified Income strategy and Nick Edwardson, Senior Investment Specialist for Multi Asset. They will provide an update on the strategy’s income profile, current positioning and the outlook.

Join us on Thursday 18 June to hear more and take the opportunity to ask any questions you may have.

AAM/Kames Multi-Asset Diversified Income strategy update

Three months after fixed income markets reacted to the shock of the global pandemic and the unprecedented measures taken by central banks and governments, we look at how it has affected the European ABS market.

• What has been the spread development across sectors in European ABS and are they fundamentally driven or is something else at play? 
• How do ABS structures help to overcome credit risk overall and in the current environment?
• What is our outlook of the European ABS market in general and in terms of relative value and our expectation of returns?

Join us on Tuesday 16th June for a live webinar with Frank Meijer and Egbert Bronsema, Co-managers of the Aegon European ABS Fund to hear more and take the opportunity to ask any questions you may have.

Aegon European ABS Fund update

Investment manager of the Kames Strategic Bond strategies, Colin Finlayson provided an update on developments in the global fixed income markets and how this has affected portfolio positioning.

AAM/Kames Strategic Bonds strategy monthly update

Head of European High Yield, Tom Hanson’s update focused on the high yield sector and provided both a high-level review of the portfolio activity and performance, as well as his outlook for the asset class.

AAM/Kames High Yield strategy monthly update

Income investing has attracted significant attention in recent weeks. Investors are facing a torrent of dividend reductions, postponements and outright cancellations that challenge the flow of income many rely on from owning shares. At Kames, we focus on sustainable and growing dividend yields which we refer to as the ‘dividend sweetspot’. We invest in highly profitable companies that carry low debt levels on their balance sheets and generate strong cash-flows that facilitate the payment of sustainable and growing dividends through time.

We would like to invite you to join a live webinar with Mark Peden, Co-manager of the Kames Global Equity Income Fund. Mark will explain how he has been managing this period of market stress and the latest positioning of the portfolio.

AAM/Kames - The Dividend Dilemma – live webinar with Mark Peden

Stephen Jones, CIO of our Multi-Asset & Solutions and Equities investment platforms, will be joined by Sandra Holdsworth, Head of Global Rates - UK, to discuss the latest market updates and the impact across asset classes.

AAM/Kames market update with Stephen Jones and Sandra Holdsworth

It is impossible to predict the direct and indirect implications of the current situation. What we know is that the market will create opportunities for fundamental bottom-up stock pickers who invest sustainably. 

We would like to invite you to join a live webinar with the new managers of the Kames Global Sustainable Equity Fund – Andrei Kiselev and Malcolm McPartlin.

Andrei and Malcolm took over management of the Fund on 1 May 2020 and will discuss their thoughts on how this is positioned to deal with current markets. They will also share their views on sustainability and the opportunities that ESG affords the Fund during a crisis like this.

AAM/Kames Global Sustainable Equity Fund update

Kames Absolute Return Bond Fund Quarter 1 review with investment managers Colin Finlayson and Rory Sandilands.

Kames Absolute Return Bond strategy - Quarter 1 2020 review

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