The strategy’s investment objective is to maximise total investment return through a combination of interest income, capital appreciation and currency gains by investing in issuers from, or that conduct substantial business in, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region.
Access to rapidly growing economies and an expanding bond market
GCC countries offer the growth potential of emerging economies with many of the fundamentals of developed markets. This strategy provides the opportunity to invest in a bond market that has expanded significantly over the last decade.
Fundamental research performed by local regional analysts
The strategy is managed by local, dedicated investment team in Dubai with full access to the global insights and expertise of fixed income investment, trading and risk professionals within Franklin Templeton’s well-established, integrated global platform.
An actively managed investment approach
Franklin GCC Bond strategy has demonstrated strong risk/return profiles and low correlation to major fixed income and equity indexes. We believe that a portfolio of low/uncorrelated positions, selected on the basis of intensive bottom-up research and guided by top-down macroeconomic analysis, has the potential to deliver above-benchmark returns over a full market cycle, whilst seeking to manage volatility and downside risk.
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