BlueBay's Dowding: Active investors can 'exploit' inefficiencies in bond indices

Opportunities in fixed income 'beyond benchmark tracking'

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Active management techniques can exploit "structural flaws" that exist in the composition of fixed income benchmarks and the volume of assets passively tracking such benchmarks to maximise returns for investors, according to BlueBay Asset Management's Mark Dowding.

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