This predominantly investment grade corporate bond fund combines the benefits of an experienced lead decision maker, Ben Edwards, with BlackRock’s vast resources. These include specialist fixed income analysts, quantitative risk tools and a huge 24-hour global trading platform.
Ben Edwards
Having earned a business degree from the Queensland University of Technology in 2000, Ben went on to gain a post-graduate degree in finance from the Financial Services Institute of Australia in 2002. That same year, he started his investment career as an analyst at M&G. He moved to Legal & General Investment Management in 2003 and joined BlackRock in 2010. He was made co-manager of BlackRock Corporate Bond fund in 2012 and lead manager in 2015. He is also a CFA charterholder.
We like this fund’s flexible mandate and Ben’s track record of consistently exploiting inefficiencies in the fixed income market. BlackRock Corporate Bond fund has delivered excellent performance since Ben became co-manager in 2012, and subsequently lead manager in 2015. Equally impressively this has been achieved whilst taking significantly less risk than the average fund in the sector.
£741.9m
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2.5
0.50%
0.56%
Acc and Inc
4.86%
Elite Rated
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