Fixed Income
For institutional investors
Parametric’s fixed income solutions provide a customizable, transparent, and rules-based approach to bond portfolios for organizations. A solution exists for every client, and if it doesn’t, we create one.
Institutions need predictable income and the diversification that its holdings provide, especially in an uncertain interest rate environment. Parametric offers comprehensive and flexible fixed income solutions that can be easily tailored to the needs of your organization.
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We’re a full-service consultative partner to implement portfolio exposures and risk management in a flexible, cost-effective, and timely manner. Portfolios can be benchmark oriented or alpha seeking. They include physical fixed income collateral for large overlay programs, various fixed income derivative implementations, and different factors applications and ESG themes to meet overall portfolio needs.
- Cash Management
- Fixed Income Ladders
- Overlay
- Municipal/US Treasury Crossover
- Responsible Fixed Income
- Liability-Driven Investing
- Custom Indexing
Core sectors
US governments and derivatives
Fixed income institutional solutions overview
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Why use Parametric’s institutional fixed income solutions?

Collaboration
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You’re supported by, and have access to, our large team of investment professionals, including portfolio managers, strategists, and research analysts, so we can offer collaboration at every level.

Oversight
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Our in-house team of experienced credit analysts do the fundamental research to select securities and provide ongoing monitoring to help you reduce credit risk.

ESG integration
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You can apply the same ESG criteria to your bonds as you do to the stock portion of your portfolio.

Technology
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We use proprietary portfolio construction models and tools to build customized solutions, buy and sell bonds at attractive prices, and carefully manage systematic risk that is unique to your plans.
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