Robeco brings its fixed income strategies to Hong Kong and Singapore retail investors

The two fundamental credit strategies share Robeco’s contrarian, value-focused credit investing approach – generating performance through bottom-up credit selection complemented by a top-down view on credit markets. Both strategies emphasize quality and maintain a shorter duration profile, aiming to limit drawdowns during volatile rate cycles.

The quantitative high yield strategy is managed by Robeco’s quantitative team, which has more than 25 years of experience in quantitative investing and manages over USD 100 billion in assets as of December 2025. The strong quant platform allows for continuous innovation of the investment strategy.

Launched in 2018 to meet Asian clients’ demand for income, The Robeco Credit Income Strategy is a flexible fixed income strategy that adopts an unconstrained and truly global approach – sourcing attractive yield and income across global investment grade credit, higher quality segments of the global high yield and emerging markets. The strategy aims to deliver an attractive yield and income with controlled credit and duration risk, making it an appealing solution for investors seeking to enhance the yield and income of their portfolios while managing volatility.

In addition to traditional credit analysis, the strategy incorporates sustainability analysis as an additional lens for assessing issuers’ outlook. The strategy is managed with a team approach, led by experienced portfolio managers, Evert Giesen and Jan Willem Knoll. As of December 2025, assets under management for the Robeco Credit Income Strategy stood at USD 2.25 billion, with more than half sourced from Asian clients.

For investors seeking high yield exposure, Robeco offers two strategies that can provide a diversified exposure to the high yield bonds markets. The Robeco High Yield Bonds Strategy offers a quality-tilted approach that adds value by avoiding losers – resulting in lower drawdowns in bear markets. Managed by ‘high-yield veterans’ Sander Bus and Roeland Moraal, who have been working together since 2003, this strategy reflects Robeco’s long-standing expertise in global high yield investing. Robeco is among the few European asset managers with a successful global high yield track record dating back to 1998. As of September 2025, Robeco manages USD 12.7 billion in fundamental high yield bond strategies.

The Robeco QI Dynamic High Yield Strategy seeks high yield-like returns through investing in Credit Default Swap (CDS) indices and government bonds since April 2014. By investing in these liquid instruments, it has the flexibility to significantly increase or decrease its high yield exposure in a quick and efficient way, offering liquidity in an otherwise illiquid asset class, even during periods of market stress. Active positioning is determined by a dynamic timing model, based on macro-economic, momentum, value and seasonal indicators. The model determines how much risk is allocated to market, region and duration risk. This unique investment process provides diversification to traditional high yield bond selection strategies.

Dawn Foo, Regional Head of Wholesale Distribution, Asia-ex Japan at Robeco: “Fixed income strategies play an important role in investors’ portfolios in Hong Kong and Singapore, and we are excited to extend our institutional‑quality fixed income strategies to retail investors. Backed by decades of experience and a strong track record, these strategies bring compelling opportunities for those seeking quality and resilience.”
Robeco has a long history in global fixed income investing. Already in the early 1970s Robeco invested in ‘corporate loans’ and international credit paper. Per end of September 2025, the firm managed a total of USD 75.2 billion in fixed income, of which USD 51.6 billion in credits. Its dedicated team of 40 credit specialists manages global, European and emerging markets portfolios (both investment grade and high yield) through several vehicles.

¹The term “QI” means ‘Quant Investing’ and illustrates that it is part of Robeco’s range of the quantitatively managed strategies.