Holding a 20% weighting in unhedged local currency emerging market debt and moving underweight UK government bonds is how Allianz Global Investors' Mike Riddell is increasing the defensiveness of his £2.4bn Allianz Strategic Bond fund, even though he admits this might seem "counter intuitive".
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