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Core Bond Fund

Inception date 01/08/1999

The Nedgroup Investments Core Bond Fund invests primarily in bonds and any other interest-bearing securities which are consistent with the investment objective. Underlying collective investment schemes may also be held.

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When did more bonds become shorthand for diversification?

David Roberts and Alex Ralph explain why counting bonds can create the illusion of diversification.

2 October 2026
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When did more bonds become shorthand for diversification?

2 October 2026
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8
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Simplicity, elegance and investing: Why the best boutiques remove complexity

Complexity is easy to add and hard to remove. Tom Caddick argues that the best investment boutiques see the discipline of stripping it away – keeping only insight, conviction and judgment – as their sharpest edge.

14 September 2026
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Simplicity, elegance and investing: Why the best boutiques remove complexity

14 September 2026
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8
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The human advantage in an AI-powered asset management industry

Future asset management distribution models will look very different. Successful investment firms will have humble leaders who effectively orchestrate internal talent, specialist external partners and AI-enabled workflows, argues Apiramy Jeyarajah.

12 September 2026
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The human advantage in an AI-powered asset management industry

12 September 2026
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Boutiques and the AI edge

Scale is often touted as an asset manager’s most significant moat. However, as Tom Caddick argues, artificial intelligence challenges this notion, and arguably hands the advantage to smaller, nimbler firms.

8 September 2026
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Boutiques and the AI edge

8 September 2026
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9
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Alpha & Accountability

In large organisations, responsibility can drain into accountability sinks. In boutiques, there is no place to hide, which changes decision-making in ways investors should care about, argues Tom Caddick.

16 July 2026
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Alpha & Accountability

16 July 2026
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8
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Why long-term investors should always ignore the market noise

In over two decades of managing investments, I have never once read a headline that indicated everything is fine and markets are ticking along nicely. That is not by chance. This is not a criticism of the media - it is simply how the information economy works. But it has a real and measurable effect on investor behaviour and understanding that effect is one of the most important things any long-term investor can do.

25 June 2026
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Why long-term investors should always ignore the market noise

25 June 2026
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When the income does the heavy lifting

For all the talk of turmoil in bond markets, yields have barely moved. With high-quality paper paying mid-single digits, investors don’t need to do anything clever to beat the bank or inflation, explains David Roberts.

8 June 2026
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When the income does the heavy lifting

8 June 2026
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4
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Exclusions over illusions

An investment process is defined as much by what it refuses to hold as by what it buys. And with high-quality yields at levels not seen in a generation, the things a bond fund rules out cost less to give up than at almost any point in living memory, as David Roberts and Alex Ralph explain.

2 June 2026
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Exclusions over illusions

2 June 2026
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In credit, liquidity is easy to overestimate

Liquidity is often treated as a constant in public markets, something investors can rely on. Recent events suggest a more complex reality. Many current concerns around credit are focused on private credit – and that conversation is worth having – but for investors in public fixed income, the more relevant question is: do you really understand the liquidity profile of what you hold?

21 April 2026
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In credit, liquidity is easy to overestimate

21 April 2026
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What private credit's growing pains reveal about public credit and the value of liquidity

With defaults, concentration risk and redemptions rising in private credit, the structural advantages of public fixed income – transparency, flexibility and daily liquidity – are coming back into focus.

26 March 2026
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What private credit's growing pains reveal about public credit and the value of liquidity

26 March 2026
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Product innovation's dirty secret

Our industry has a predictable pattern. Someone launches a product. It gains traction. Marketing departments worldwide declare it revolutionary. Money pours in. Then, slowly, the fundamental questions emerge. Does this actually serve clients? Does it do what it claims? Does it solve a real problem or create new ones?

19 March 2026
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Product innovation's dirty secret

19 March 2026
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5
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The Subtraction Advantage

Big firms add people, products and process to reduce risk. Boutiques can win by removing the constraints that can kill your edge, and also by recognising that more information does not always equal better decisions.

23 February 2026
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11
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The Subtraction Advantage

23 February 2026
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11
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