The Upside of Volatility

Senior PM Maulik Bhansali discusses how Allspring's Core Fixed Income team leverages market volatility and security selection to generate alpha.

Key Takeaways

• 1.Core Fixed Income strategies prioritize alpha generation through active security selection and portfolio rotation rather than interest rate bets.
• 2.Market volatility is viewed as an opportunity to deliver outsized excess returns by increasing risk-taking during periods of mispricing.
• 3.Co-management is a central feature of Allspring's culture, combining diverse skill sets like trading experience and quantitative risk analysis.

Table of Contents

• Key takeaways
• Q: How has your investment career unfolded?
• Q: How do you co-manage the Core Fixed Income team and Fixed Income Portfolio Management?
• Q: What makes Allspring's Core Fixed Income approach unique?
• Q: Could you give an example of what best ideas look like and how they're executed?
• Q: Investors are often skeptical of relying on a security selection approach for fixed income strategies. Is that skepticism valid?
• Q: Is it more difficult to maintain a disciplined approach to security selection in any particular markets—for example, when rates and volatility are rising or falling or staying steady?

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