The investment objective of the Fund is to seek to provide investors with a total return, taking into account both capital and income returns. The Fund is actively managed. In order to achieve its investment objective, the Fund will invest at least 80% of its total assets in investment grade (or where unrated deemed by the Investment Manager to be of an equivalent rating) fixed income securities issued by corporate issuers (i.e. corporate bonds) in developed markets and instruments relating to such securities (namely credit default swaps, currency swaps, futures and forwards) and denominated in US Dollar. The Fund may (in addition to fixed income securities issued by corporate issuers and related instruments) invest in government bonds, municipal bonds, sovereign and supranational debt, and instruments relating to such bonds denominated in US Dollar.