Jorie Gibbons

Bradford & Marzec is a global, fixed-income manager. The firm employs a traditional, top-down, conservative sector rotation style with a bottom-up component to capture market inefficiencies. They seek to add value by shifting between bond market sectors to capture undervalued opportunities and to avoid overvalued sectors. Bradford & Marzec manages core, core plus and high-yield fixed income portfolios utilizing a long-only investment style and limited use of derivatives. The firm has particular expertise in credit analysis. They focus on fixed-income securities ranging from higher-grade, high yield securities to investment grade securities. The firm's security selection process relies on technical and quantitative analysis to diversify portfolios across high yield securities and non-dollar investments according to each client's guidelines. High yield investments are made in securities rated B or better. Non-dollar investments are made in the sovereign debt or investment grade credit of developed countries. Currency strategies are also actively managed for hedging purposes and to add value when appropriate. Bradford & Marzec uses scenario modeling to insure against surprises and control risk.