Core Plus Strategies Fund

Our Core Plus Strategies Fund gives investors access to a diversified range of short and long term fixed interest securities, including government, bank and corporate securities, in domestic and global credit markets. We aim to minimise interest rate risk by the use of interest rate futures, interest rate swaps and other derivatives. Our Fund’s exposure to global credit securities is fully hedged back to Australian dollars.

We have teamed with Goldman Sachs Asset Management (a fixed income and money market specialist) to manage the Fund.

• We are responsible for the asset allocation between Australian and global credit markets as well as managing the Australian bond portfolio of our Fund. This includes managing domestic credit, high yield securities, interest rates and benchmark & hedging.
  
• Goldman Sachs undertakes sector and stock selection, currency and interest rate hedging and country risk management for the global bond portfolio of our Fund.

Key features

• the potential for attractive returns from exposure to a diversified portfolio of higher yielding short & long-term fixed interest domestic and global credit markets securities
• exposure to a range of higher yielding securities – the fund can invest from investment grade to sub-investment grade credit qualities, cross over credits, asset-backed securities, and emerging market debt
• proven credit management expertise from access to the resources of two specialised fixed interest teams
  

Fund facts
APIR code	AMP0279AU (Wholesale units)
Fund aim	To provide returns above inflation and cash over the short term to medium term while accepting low to medium levels of volatility.
Risk level	Low-medium
Time frame	Minimum 2 to 3 years
Inception date	13 January 1995 (Wholesale units)
Benchmark	UBSA Composite Bond Index (All Maturities)