Rathbone Ethical Bond Fund

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Rathbone Ethical Bond Fund I Inc

Category GBP Corporate Bond
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This fund can be held in an Investment ISA, SIPP and Investment Account
Last buy/sell price

85.47p

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Fund Code

RAEII

B7FQJT3

GB00B7FQJT36

Prices updated as at 08 May 2025
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Prices in GBX
Investment objective
The objective of the fund is to deliver a greater total return than the IA Sterling Corporate Bond sector, after fees, over any rolling five-year period. There is no guarantee that this investment objective will be achieved over five years, or any other time period. The manager uses the IA Sterling Corporate Bond sector as a target for the fund’s return because it aims to consistently outperform the average return of the companies competitors. To meet the objective, the fund manager will invest at least 80% of the fund in corporate bonds with an investment-grade rating (AAA to BBB-). The remaining 20% of the fund is invested in corporate bonds with a credit rating below BBB- or with no rating at all. Up to 10% of the fund can be invested directly in contingent convertible bonds. The fund may invest globally but at least 80% of the portfolio will be invested in sterling denominated assets or hedged back to sterling.
Important documents: Please ensure that you have read the Key Information Document/Technical Guide
, SDR Consumer facing disclosure, Pre-sale Illustrations document & Doing Business with Fidelity document (incorporating the Fidelity Client Terms) and the fund information documents. These can be found within the Charges & documents section.
Company name
Rathbones Asset Management Limited
Fund launch date
01 Mar 2012
Domicile
United Kingdom
UCITS
Yes
Lead manager
Bryn Jones
Lead manager start date
01 Nov 2004
Lead fund manager biography
Bryn is the head of fixed income for Rathbones and is lead manager on the Rathbone Ethical Bond Fund and the Rathbone Strategic Bond Fund. He joined Rathbones in November 2004 from Merrill Lynch, where he managed $2 billion of fixed income assets. Bryn is a member of the Rathbone Strategic Asset Allocation Committee, non-executive chairman of Rathbones' Fixed Income Committee, and an adviser to the Rathbone Banking Committee. He is a WMA representative for the HMT DMO’s (Her Majesty’s Treasury - Debt Management Office) Gilt market consultation process. Bryn appears regularly on CNBC and Bloomberg TV. He also sits on the IA Fixed Income Committee. Bryn graduated from Birmingham University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Geography in 1995. Bryn was awarded Fund Manager of the year, within the Sterling Corporate Bond sector in 2021 at the Investment Week awards and was also awarded the Citywire top 10 fund Manager of the decade. Bryn’s Rathbone Ethical Bond Fund was awarded Best Ethical Investment Fund, 2019 and 2018; Best Sustainable and ESG Bond Fund 2020 - Investment Week Sustainable and ESG Investment Awards; Best Sterling Corporate Bond Fund at the Morningstar UK Fund Awards 2014, 2016 and 2020; Best SRI Bond Fund at the Money Observer 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019 and 2020 Fund Awards; the Rathbone Ethical Bond Fund is also a top performer in the Bond Pound Sterling – Corporates sector over three and five years in the UK (Lipper Fund Award 2015) and was ‘Highly Commended’ at the 2015 Moneywise Awards. In 2018 the Ethical bond fund won the prestigious Judge’s Choice fixed Income fund award at the Investment Week awards. His Rathbone Strategic Bond fund was voted best Multi-Asset Fixed Income Strategy at the Investment Week Specialist Investment Awards 2015.
Lead manager
Stuart Chilvers
Lead manager start date
31 Mar 2023
Lead fund manager biography
Stuart works with Bryn Jones, assisting in the management of the Rathbone Ethical Bond Fund and the Rathbone Strategic Bond Fund. He is also the lead fund manager of the Rathbone High Quality Bond Fund. Stuart joined Rathbones in September 2017 and was made an Assistant Fund Manager in January 2020, then Fund Manager in January 2022. Previously, he gained three years industry experience at Brown Shipley.He graduated from Bath University with a first-class Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics. He is a CFA Charterholder and also holds the CISI Chartered Wealth Manager qualification, having won the CISI Financial Markets & CISI Chartered Wealth Manager Qualification awards at the annual CISI awards in 2016 & 2017 respectively. He was named in the 2018 Citywire Top 30 under 30 investment management awards.
Head office
8 Finsbury Circus
London
United Kingdom
EC2M 7AZ
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