Leading European Insurance Asset Manager Adopts bondIT’s Portfolio Management Technology to Digitise Bond Investing and Incorporate ESG Factors

 

bondIT’s Frontier platform enables asset managers to maximise the performance, and bolster the ESG credentials

A leading European Insurance Asset Manager has partnered with bondIT to digitise its fixed income investing workflows. The asset manager uses bondIT’s Frontier platform to build, optimise, and analyse bond portfolios up to 10 times faster than using manual processes.

bondIT’s data-agnostic technology also enables them to incorporate the widest range of ESG factors available, ensuring they are well positioned to deliver ESG integrated portfolios whilst maximising performance.

“A sustainable and successful investment strategy starts with optimal bond allocation, and technology can play a key role in increasing efficiency and reducing risk. We chose bondIT’s portfolio construction and management technology because of its scalability and the multitude of optimisation dimensions it offers.”

 Head of Fixed Income, European Insurance Asset Manager

bondIT’s Frontier platform empowers asset managers to deliver data-driven, optimal portfolios within minutes. As a cloud-hosted, API-ready platform, Frontier seamlessly integrates with proprietary and external data, models, order management and execution systems, and can be embedded directly into client systems. The platform allows users to generate and rebalance portfolios based on different optimization criteria, individually configurable portfolio objectives and bond level constraints.

Portfolio managers also have the ability to rebalance existing portfolios to increase ESG performance and maximise ESG scores, whilst controlling other risk factors. Moreover, bondIT’s integrated Scorable Credit Analytics analyzes more than 250 data variables and 350 Gigabytes every day, such as business figures, market prices and credit ratings daily, to determine issuer-specific credit risk and help users spot investment opportunities and rating transitions ahead of the market.

“Integrating ESG factors into the investment process is becoming increasingly important to align with investor values and to mitigate risk, but it should not come at the expense of returns,” says Dr. David Curtis, Head of Global Client Business at bondIT. “What sets bondIT’s Frontier platform apart is that it enables asset managers to maximise ESG scores whilst optimising other constraints such as cash flow, credit quality and yield simultaneously. Better data drives better performance and that’s where bondIT is able to really harness technology to create a lasting competitive advantage improve productivity and efficiency for our clients.”

Want to find out more about bondIT’s Frontier and how it can help you maximize the ESG performance of your bond portfolio? Get in touch with the bondIT team.