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Our international offering is built around our Emerging Market Debt and European Credit strategies and is available through our partners in several markets. The award-winning expertise of our highly experienced and well-resourced teams creates a strong basis for successful investment operations.
Emerging Market Debt
The Emerging Market Debt team combines top-down macroeconomic analysis with a proprietary bottom-up country selection process across hard currency, local currency, and frontier local currency strategies. The team has been investing in Emerging Market Debt since 2007 and launched the world’s first frontier market local currency bond fund in 2015. Over the years, the team has developed extensive expertise in sovereign debt, currencies, frontier markets, and country allocation. Investment decisions are supported by a combination of quantitative models, fundamental research and direct engagement with policymakers, central banks, and local market participants.
Our investment philosophy is active, with country selection at the core of the investment process. Through a proprietary country framework, the team seeks to identify countries with improving fundamentals and attractive valuations. Quantitative and qualitative assessments are combined, with particular emphasis placed on the direction of development rather than current conditions alone. Within a disciplined risk management framework, the team seeks to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns over market cycles.
Our EMD team consists of experienced specialists and manages three different strategies.
- Launch date: 14 October 2008
- Strategy available as: Aktia Emerging Market Local Currency Bond+ (Finnish domiciled UCITS fund), UI-Aktia EM Local Currency Bond+ (Luxembourg domiciled UCITS fund)
Aktia EM Local Currency Bond is a fixed income fund that invests in bonds and currencies across Emerging markets, seeking to deliver attractive risk-adjusted returns. The investment strategy has a long-term investment horizon and employs a bottom-up, country-selection investment process (Aktia Traffic Light Approach), focusing on economic, governance and social factors, utilising Aktia's in-house Fundamental Model. It combines both quantitative and qualitative analysis and places more weight on the direction of development than on the current level. Investments are only made in local currency market government bonds and money market instruments, currency derivatives, and AAA-rated development finance institution bonds. Derivative instruments are mainly used for investment purposes to take active currency risk but may also be used for hedging purposes. The strategy targets higher risk-adjusted total returns with lower FX volatility, through diversification and off-benchmark exposures.
Documents (pdf)
PRIIPs-KID
Fund prospectus
Fact sheet
- Launch date: 7 December 2015
- Strategy available as: Aktia Emerging Market Local Currency Frontier Bond+ (Finnish domiciled UCITS fund), UI-Aktia EM Frontier Bond+ (Luxembourg domiciled UCITS fund)
Aktia EM Local Currency Frontier Bond is a fixed income fund that invests in bonds and currencies across Frontier markets, seeking to deliver attractive risk-adjusted returns. The investment strategy has a long-term investment horizon and employs a bottom-up, country-selection investment process (Aktia Traffic Light Approach), focusing on economic, governance and social factors, utilising Aktia's in-house Fundamental Model. It combines both quantitative and qualitative analysis and places more weight on the direction of development than on the current level. Investments are only made in local currency frontier market government bonds and money market instruments, currency derivatives, and AAA-rated development finance institution bonds. Derivative instruments are mainly used for investment purposes to take active currency risk but may also be used for hedging purposes. The strategy targets higher risk-adjusted total returns with lower FX volatility, through diversification and off-benchmark exposures.
Documents (pdf)
PRIIPs-KID
Fund prospectus
Fact sheet
- Launch date: 12 February 2007
- Strategy available as: Aktia Emerging Market Bond+ (Finnish domiciled UCITS fund)
Aktia Emerging Market Bond is a fixed income fund that invests in hard currency bonds. The Fund employs a bottom-up, country-selection investment process (Aktia Traffic Light Approach), focusing on economic, governance and social factors, utilising Aktia's in-house Fundamental Model. It combines both quantitative and qualitative analysis and places more weight on the direction of development than on the current level. The investment approach is benchmark aware, and investments are only made in emerging market hard-currency sovereign bonds, issued in USD or EUR. Derivative instruments are used for hedging purposes, to control the Fund's interest rate risk and fully hedge USD currency risk. The Fund aims to avoid investing in distressed debt and/or restructuring cases, while focusing on constructing a well-diversified portfolio and targeting higher risk-adjusted returns than the benchmark over the long-term.
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Documents (pdf)
Fact Sheet
For further information please contact Petri Aho, Head of International Sales, petri.aho (at) aktia.fi
European Credit
European Credit combines top-down and bottom-up investment approaches across a range of European and Nordic credit strategies. The team's key areas of expertise include financials & insurance, Nordic credit, sustainable bonds, corporate hybrids and short-duration credit.
Our investment philosophy is active and benchmark agnostic, with a strong focus on diversification, downside risk identification and disciplined risk management. While aiming for consistent outperformance across market cycles, the team implements both strategic and tactical credit views through wider market, sector, and security-level themes within a controlled risk framework.
The team has been active in green bonds since 2013 and integrates ESG factors throughout the investment process.
- Launch date: 20 July 2000
- Strategy available as: Aktia Corporate Bond+ (Finnish domiciled UCITS fund)
Aktia Corporate Bond+ is a European corporate credit strategy that combines top-down credit allocation with active security selection. The strategy seeks to generate excess returns through credit quality assessment and relative value opportunities rather than duration positioning, while maintaining interest-rate duration close to benchmark levels. The portfolio invests in a diversified universe of euro-denominated corporate bonds, with at least 75% allocated to investment grade issuers and up to 25% invested in selected high yield opportunities. An attractive running yield remains a key component of total return generation.
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- Launch date: 1 September 2022
- Strategy available as: UI-Aktia Sustainable Corporate Bond (Luxembourg domiciled UCITS fund)
Aktia Sustainable Corporate Bond is an SFDR Article 9 European corporate credit strategy designed to deliver both positive environmental impact and competitive investment returns. The portfolio invests at least 80% in investment grade corporate bonds and maintains a duration-neutral investment approach. Sustainability considerations are embedded in portfolio construction through exposure to green and other sustainable credit instruments, while the strategy retains limited flexibility to invest in selected high yield opportunities when attractive risk-adjusted opportunities arise.
Documents (pdf)
PRIIPs-KID
Fund prospectus
Fact sheet
The documents below are managed by Universal-Investment-Luxembourg S.A. and are from the Universal-Investment-Luxembourg S.A. website. Aktia is not responsible for the documents in question.
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Sustainability-related disclosures (pdf)
- Launch date: 14 January 1996
- Strategy available as: Aktia Short Corporate Bond (Finnish domiciled UCITS fund)
- The fund is registered in Finland
Aktia Short Corporate Bond is a short-duration credit strategy designed to combine liquidity with attractive running yield. The portfolio invests primarily in investment grade corporate bonds, complemented by selective allocations to high yield and unrated issuers, while maintaining an interest-rate duration of 0-1 years.
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Documents (pdf)
Fund Prospectus
Pre-contractual product disclosure
- Launch date: 15 October 2019
- Strategy available as: Aktia European High Yield Bond+ (Finnish domiciled UCITS fund)
- The fund is registered in Finland
Aktia European High Yield Bond is a bottom-up credit strategy investing across the broad European high yield universe. The investment process focuses on identifying attractive issuers and individual securities, with particular expertise in LBO financing, corporate and financial hybrid bonds, and Nordic issuers. Sustainability considerations are incorporated into investment decisions, including a focus on lower carbon intensity, positive net impact and sustainable credit instruments where appropriate.
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Documents (pdf)
Fund Prospectus
Pre-contractual product disclosure
- Launch date: 8 September 2014
- Strategy available as: Aktia Nordic High Yield (Finnish domiciled UCITS fund)
- The fund is registered in Finland
Aktia Nordic High Yield is a bottom-up credit strategy investing across the Nordic high yield market. The portfolio focuses on medium-sized unrated and high yield issuers, complemented by selective crossover and hybrid exposures. Particular emphasis is placed on floating-rate instruments and new issue opportunities, reflecting the characteristics of Nordic credit markets. Through investment capabilities across Nordic currencies, the strategy accesses a broader opportunity set and seeks to provide higher yield potential while maintaining relatively low duration exposure.
Read more (Finnish/Swedish)
Documents (pdf)
Fund Prospectus
Pre-contractual product disclosure
For further information please contact Petri Aho, Head of International Sales, petri.aho (at) aktia.fi
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