The Payden & Rygel approach to index replication centers on picking appropriate bonds to represent key risks. We assess the trade-off between constructing a portfolio of bonds that track the benchmark, whilst also limiting the number of securities owned to control transaction costs, to maintain liquidity, and at the margin, to reflect relative value. We use statistical and qualitative analysis to find the appropriate balance between minimizing tracking error and boosting returns. Ultimately, we strive to match the return of the benchmark with no deliberate performance drift relative to that benchmark.
Fund Snapshot
Fund Inception Date
May 26, 2016
Share Class Inception Date
Jul 14, 2008
Ticker
PGVBISD ID
ISIN Number
IE00B2QPHQ75
Sedol Number
B2QPHQ7
Fund Total Net Assets
$235.4 million
Benchmark
FTSE World Government Bond Index GBP Hedged
Currency Share Classes Available
CAD, CHF, EUR, GBP, JPY, NOK, SGD, USD
Management Fee
0.12%
Total Expense Ratio
0.15%
Investment Minimum
£1,000,000 initial
Unless otherwise indicated, all listed data represents past performance. There is no guarantee of future performance, nor are fund shares guaranteed. Funds are issued by Payden & Rygel Global, Ltd., which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. The investment products and services of Payden & Rygel are not available in the United Kingdom to private investors. The value of an investment may fall as well as rise and an investor may get back less than the amount that has been invested. Income from an investment may fluctuate in value in money terms. Changes in rates of exchange may cause the value of an investment to go up or down.
Portfolio Characteristics
Fund Inception Date
May 26, 2016
Share Class Inception Date
Jul 14, 2008
Total Net Assets
$235.4 million
Average Duration
7.3 years
Average Maturity
9.2 years
Yield to Maturity (hedged)
3.94%
Maturity Breakdown
Years
Percent of Portfolio
0-1
7%
1-3
24%
3-5
14%
5-7
14%
7-10
10%
10+
31%
Total
100%
Credit Breakdown
Credit Quality
Percent of Portfolio
AAA
60%
AA
14%
A
20%
BBB
6%
Total
100%
Sector Breakdown
Sector
Percent of Portfolio
Government/Gov't Related
96%
Money Markets
4%
Total
100%
Country Breakdown
Country
Percent of Portfolio
US
45.0%
Euroland
29.0%
Japan
15.0%
UK
4.0%
Canada
2.0%
Scandinavia
1.0%
Australia
1.0%
Singapore
1.0%
Malaysia
1.0%
Other
1.0%
Unless otherwise indicated, all listed data represents past performance. There is no guarantee of future performance, nor are fund shares guaranteed. Funds are issued by Payden & Rygel Global, Ltd., which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. The investment products and services of Payden & Rygel are not available in the United Kingdom to private investors. The value of an investment may fall as well as rise and an investor may get back less than the amount that has been invested. Income from an investment may fluctuate in value in money terms. Changes in rates of exchange may cause the value of an investment to go up or down.
Total Returns
YTD
1 Year
3 Year
5 Year
10 Year
Since Inception
Quarter-end (12/31/2022)
-13.75%
-13.75%
-3.93%
-1.15%
0.80%
2.14%
Month-end (12/31/2022)
-13.75%
-13.75%
-3.93%
-1.15%
0.80%
2.14%
Yearly Returns
2022
-13.75%
2021
-2.52%
2020
5.45%
2019
5.54%
2018
0.83%
2017
0.81%
2016
3.22%
2015
1.57%
2014
8.51%
2013
0.08%
Expenses
Management Fee
0.12%
Total Expense Ratio
0.15%
Unless otherwise indicated, all listed data represents past performance. There is no guarantee of future performance, nor are fund shares guaranteed. Funds are issued by Payden & Rygel Global, Ltd., which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. The investment products and services of Payden & Rygel are not available in the United Kingdom to private investors. The value of an investment may fall as well as rise and an investor may get back less than the amount that has been invested. Income from an investment may fluctuate in value in money terms. Changes in rates of exchange may cause the value of an investment to go up or down.
Fund Commentary
MARKET
Despite early signs of inflation cooling, market sentiment weakened, with risk assets generally selling off on the month. Much of this sell-off can be attributed to hawkish central bank rhetoric, the Bank of Japan's change in yield control limits, and a resurgence in COVID cases in China. Equities decreased over the month whilst global government bond yields rose.
In the US, the month began with economic prints that continued to illustrate a robust economy and left investors fearing persistently high inflation. The Nonfarm Payroll report showed that the US economy added 263 thousand (estimated: 220 thousand) jobs in November; additionally, the report showed sharp revisions upward in October's figures. This print left the market questioning if the Federal Reserve (Fed) would slow interest rate hikes anytime soon. Soon after, the Producers Purchasing Index (PPI) printed higher than expected at 7.4% (estimated: 7.2%). Despite this, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) surprised to the downside for the second month in a row, which briefly increased market resiliency mid-month as markets hoped "peak inflation" was behind us. Soon after the CPI was released, the Fed raised interest rates by 50 basis points (bps) as expected, downshifting from four consecutive 75 bps hikes. However, the optimism brought on by lower-than-expected CPI and the downshift in hikes was quickly quelled by hawkish comments made by Jerome Powell and other officials following the rate announcement. 10-year US Treasury yields closed the month up by 27 bps, and the S&P 500 lost 5.9% in December.
European sentiment began hopeful as eurozone inflation decelerated from 10.6% in October to 10% in November. This print, combined with last month's country-level CPI downshifts, prompted investors to price out the chances of a 75 bps European Central Bank (ECB) interest rate hike and instead favour a 50 bps hike. Consistent with these expectations, the ECB increased borrowing rates to 2.5% (+50 bps). ECB’s President Christine Lagarde delivered a very hawkish message following the decision pointing at persistently high inflation, further rate hikes, and quantitative tightening beginning in March 2023. German Bund yields rose by 64 bps over the month, and the Stoxx 600 fell by 3.44%.
In Asia, the Bank of Japan announced in a surprise move that Japan's 10-year government bond yields would now be able to rise to 0.5%, having previously been limited to 0.25%. This news contributed to global yield increases this month, and the Japanese Yen saw its largest daily gain of the 21st century against the US Dollar (+3.93%). Furthermore, the Chinese government abruptly abandoned COVID-zero policies after last month's protests. Initially, markets received this news favourably; yet, as the month progressed and COVID cases ticked up, concerns mounted over the risk of new variants.
OUTLOOK
While the probability of some extreme risk events has arguably lessened recently, we expect 2023 should be a challenging balancing act for policy makers and the global economy. We see the global economy entering a phase of slower growth and still elevated inflation with risks biased to the downside for growth and upside for inflation. Central to our expectations are the questions of how rapidly is inflation going to slow and at what level will inflation settle? As we enter 2023, the direction of travel of inflation is expected to be lower, as some aspects of inflation normalise (energy and food related). However stickier parts of inflation are still posing a threat to a timely return of inflation towards central banks’ targets. We expect policy rate increases to slow going forward but see a need for monetary policy settings to stay in restrictive territory for potentially a longer period of time than currently priced in. As major central banks maintain their focus on returning inflation to target and guarding inflation expectations from becoming unanchored, we see risks biased towards an overtightening of monetary conditions, the magnitude of which will influence the depth and length of the upcoming slowdown.
On the flip side of this rather challenging outlook, underlying government bond yields and credit spreads are already reflecting a large degree of overtightening risk and pessimism regarding growth. Notwithstanding the current level of valuations, given what we think is still a high level of uncertainty and as we approach the end of the economic cycle, we generally favour a relatively conservative risk posture with a preference towards the higher quality and most liquid part of the fixed-income market. Thematically, we expect 2023 to see a greater level of divergence across regions with the US economy seemingly better positioned to navigate the turbulences laying ahead whilst the euro-area and the UK face greater challenges in terms of real income squeeze and a worst growth/inflation backdrop.
Against this backdrop, we favour to enter the year with a relative duration position between the US and euro-area as we see scope for German bonds to underperform US Treasuries. We also have a bias for underweight duration positions at the periphery of Europe. We maintain an underweight duration in Japan as we still like the risk return profile offered by said position ahead of potentially more monetary policy changes from the Bank of Japan.
From a credit perspective, we enter the year with a relatively modest overweight to credit markets with a focus towards less cyclical sectors, lower beta and higher liquid names. As we approach the end of the cycle and the economy slows, we expect downgrades to tick up in the coming year which highlight the need for careful security selection. Within emerging-markets, and absent positive developments on a potential resolution of the Ukraine/Russia conflict, we still favour issuers that are less exposed to the conflict. Within high-yield, we maintain a preference towards shorter dated and higher quality securities with a bias towards energy issuers.
In currency space, 2022 saw a strong performance of the US dollar across most other currencies, taking the US Dollar to what is generally described as rich valuation levels. Whilst US rates may be approaching the top end of this cycle and the interest rate differential with other economies might stabilise or narrow going forward, our late-cycle view would still be consistent with a supportive environment for the US dollar. Given the mixed assessment across fundamentals and valuations, we maintain a broadly neutral position in the US dollar at this stage. Our favoured theme in currency is centred around a long Japanese position against higher beta currencies that are usually underperformers in a global economic slowdown.
Unless otherwise indicated, all listed data represents past performance. There is no guarantee of future performance, nor are fund shares guaranteed. Funds are issued by Payden & Rygel Global, Ltd., which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. The investment products and services of Payden & Rygel are not available in the United Kingdom to private investors. The value of an investment may fall as well as rise and an investor may get back less than the amount that has been invested. Income from an investment may fluctuate in value in money terms. Changes in rates of exchange may cause the value of an investment to go up or down.
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Career Opportunities
Payden & Rygel provides superior solutions by employing a staff whose education, experience and vision have made the firm a leader in the field. We welcome the opportunity to speak with talented and motivated individuals who wish to meet this challenge.
If you are interested in a career with Payden & Rygel, please submit your resume to the firm's human resources department at careers@payden.com.
Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Preperations
Payden & Rygel has developed a Business Continuity Plan to ensure that all critical functions continue in the event of a disruption in normal operations.
The firm has configured data replication servers and related infrastructure in its Boston, Massachusetts office. Data on critical Los Angeles servers is replicated to corresponding servers in the Boston location on a live basis throughout each day. In addition, other servers and databases are backed up, sent electronically to Boston, and restored at the end of each day. The firm has established a dedicated high-speed connection between the Los Angeles and Boston offices to facilitate the secure transmission of data backups.
A number of individuals from the Trading, Portfolio Operations, Information Technology, Compliance and Portfolio Management departments have been selected to connect remotely to the Boston office to complete their daily responsibilities, in the event of a disruption to normal business operations. The firm has implemented a VMWare virtual environment for each of these individuals so that they each have their own remote desktop in Boston to which they securely connect using a laptop or desktop computer with an Internet connection. Our expectation is that routine business operations will resume within 24 hours of a business continuity event. In addition, the Boston office has capacity to accommodate additional employees if a physical relocation of selected Los Angeles employees is necessary.
The firm uses a third-party hosted mass notification system to quickly communicate with all employees in the event of a disruption in operations. The system allows management to compose a text or voice message notifying employees of the event, which is then sent automatically to employees' mobile phones, home phones, and e-mail addresses. Employees indicate their receipt of the message from their phone or mobile device, which allows management to immediately review summary reports of the employees who are aware of the disruption. Additional instructions and updates can then be sent to all staff, as necessary under the circumstances.
In the event that our Business Continuity Plan is activated and Los Angeles office phone lines are down, the Los Angeles phone numbers are re-directed to the Boston office. Boston-based staff will direct callers to the mobile phones of key portfolio professionals, as necessary. All key investment personnel have access to firm e-mail on mobile devices. E-mail delivery to Payden & Rygel addresses is not dependent on the availability of either Los Angeles or Boston servers. Finally, Boston-based staff has access to portfolio management and reporting information independent of Los Angeles technology availability.
The transfer agent for the Paydenfunds is not located in Payden & Rygel's offices. The transfer agent for all of the funds maintains all shareholder records and will continue to receive all shareholder calls related to their accounts.
On at least a quarterly basis, several employees from the departments specified above will remotely connect to the Boston office to test the infrastructure by conducting their daily job responsibilities, including the execution, ticketing, settlement and processing of securities trades.
The Business Continuity Plan was developed and is monitored by a committee of senior managers, including the heads of the Trading, Portfolio Operations, Compliance and Information Technology departments. The committee meets regularly to discuss any necessary updates to the Plan and coordinates ongoing tests of the Boston location by a team of employees from various departments. The committee also solicits feedback from personnel based on the ongoing tests and promptly makes adjustments to the Plan and the Boston office resources, as necessary.
Updates to the Business Continuity Plan will be posted on this website page and a copy of the Plan may also be obtained by written request.
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To assure that Payden & Rygel meets their fiduciary responsibilities as an investment adviser, we have in place policies and procedures to support our ESG & Stewardship efforts
In addition to our applicable firm wide policies, Payden & Rygel and affiliated companies has been appointed as investment manager/adviser to various EU domiciled collective investment schemes. Payden manages many of these investments so that they can be designated as Article 8 financial products pursuant to the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (EU 2019/2088). Payden has further been appointed by certain clients under separately managed accounts to manage assets in accordance with SFDR Article 8.
Payden & Rygel respects your right to privacy. We also know that you expect us to conduct and process your business in an accurate and efficient manner and in compliance with applicable legal and regulatory requirements.
Collection of Information
To meet those expectations, we must collect and maintain certain personal information that is required by state and federal agencies, such as name, address and tax ID. We may collect or capture nonpublic information about you from the following sources:
Client onboarding forms;
Oral conversations or written correspondence between you and your Payden & Rygel representatives; and
Electronic sources, such as our Web site, or E-Mails.
Payden & Rygel clients have the right to: (i) be informed, at or before the point of collection, of the categories of personal information to be collected and the purposes for which the categories of personal information shall be used; and (ii) be informed of (a) the categories of personal information Payden & Rygel has collected about them; (b) the specific pieces of personal information Payden & Rygel has collected about them; (c) the categories of sources from which Payden & Rygel has collected the personal information; (d) the business or commercial purpose for collecting the personal information; and (e) the categories of third parties with whom Payden & Rygel share personal information about any client.
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We do not disclose any nonpublic personal and account information about our clients, or former clients, to anyone, except as permitted by law.
In this regard, we may disclose such information to our affiliates, including Payden & Rygel Global Limited; Treasury Plus, Inc.; and Payden & Rygel Distributors. We also may disclose such information to unaffiliated third parties who are service providers to Payden & Rygel, such as broker-dealers, transfer agents or custodians. In each case, such disclosure is permitted by law, and the recipients are permitted to use it only as needed to provide agreed services to you. Finally, we may also disclose information to appropriate government agencies, and to others, as required by law or to prevent fraud.
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We limit access to your personal and account information to those employees who need to know that information so that we can provide products and services to you. We also maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect your nonpublic personal and account information. Finally, when we dispose of such information, we have in place policies and procedures to assure that such information is properly stored and shredded in the case of documentary material and erased in the case of electronic media so that in either case the information cannot be practicably read or reconstructed.
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The investment strategy and investment management information presented on this website should not be construed to be formal financial planning advice or the formation of a financial manager/client relationship. Payden.com is an informative website designed to provide information to the general public based on our recommendations of investment management and investment strategies and is not designed to be representative of your own financial needs. Nor does the information contained herein constitute financial management advice. The firm makes no warranty or representation regarding the accuracy or legality of any information contained in this website, and assumes no liability for the use of said information. Be advised that as Internet communications are not always confidential, you provide our website your personal information at your own risk. Please do not make any decisions about any investment management or investment strategy matter without consulting with a qualified professional.
The Funds respect your right to privacy. We also know that you expect us to conduct and process your business in an accurate and efficient manner and in compliance with applicable legal and regulatory requirements.
Collection of Information
To meet those expectations, we must collect and maintain certain personal information that is required by state and federal agencies, such as name, address and tax ID. We may collect or capture nonpublic information about you from the following sources:
The Fund application, or other forms;
Oral conversations or written correspondence between you and our representatives;
Your transactions with us; and
Electronic sources, such as our Web site, or E-Mails.
Payden & Rygel clients have the right to: (i) be informed, at or before the point of collection, of the categories of personal information to be collected and the purposes for which the categories of personal information shall be used; and (ii) be informed of (a) the categories of personal information Payden & Rygel has collected about them; (b) the specific pieces of personal information Payden & Rygel has collected about them; (c) the categories of sources from which Payden & Rygel has collected the personal information; (d) the business or commercial purpose for collecting the personal information; and (e) the categories of third parties with whom Payden & Rygel share personal information.
Disclosure of Information
We do not disclose any nonpublic personal and account information about our customers, or former customers, to anyone, except as permitted by law.
In this regard, we may disclose such information to our affiliates, including the Funds’ investment adviser, Payden & Rygel; administrator, Treasury Plus, Inc.; and distributor, Payden & Rygel Distributors. We also may disclose such information to unaffiliated third parties who are service providers to you or to the Funds, such as broker-dealers, transfer agents, custodians, or our mail processing firm. In each case, such disclosure is permitted by law, and the recipients are permitted to use it only as needed to provide agreed services to you. Finally, we may also disclose information to appropriate government agencies, and to others, as required by law or to prevent fraud.
We do not sell personal information collected, nor make that personal information available on-line. To change your personal information, call Paydenfund Shareholder Services at 800-572-9366 and request the forms necessary to make any such changes.
Internal Access to Information and Safeguards
We limit access to your personal and account information to those employees who need to know that information so that we can provide products and services to you. We also maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect your nonpublic personal and account information. Finally, when we dispose of such information, we have in place policies and procedures to assure that such information is properly stored and shredded in the case of documentary material and erased in the case of electronic media so that in either case the information cannot be practicably read or reconstructed.
As required by U.S. federal law, Payden & Rygel will update this information at least annually.