Vontobel has launched three emerging markets fixed income strategies, providing US investors first-time access to the time-tested bond market expertise of its USD 25bnFixed Income Boutique. Vontobel?s Emerging Markets Bonds team follows a differentiated, high-conviction and bottom-up focused investment approach. It is based on a contrarian approach, striving to generate consistent and strong risk-adjusted returns for investors by capturing value and event-driven opportunities. Through ESG consideration and integration, the team aims to improve the long-term risk-return characteristics of its portfolios while reflecting its clients? values. The following three strategies are now available as separate account vehicles: The Emerging Markets Debt Strategy specializes primarily in hard-currency sovereign debt and aims to capitalize on primarily bottom-up value opportunities that occur due to irrational, herd-like investor behavior, while monitoring the liquidity and diversification of the portfolio. The strategy is managed by Luc D?hooge, CFA, and Wouter van Overfelt, PhD. The Emerging Markets Corporate Bond Strategy employs a bottom-up and relative-value approach, using in-depth knowledge of issuers to find value opportunities and event-driven situations which may be decorrelated from the broader market and global interest rates. The strategy is managed by Wouter Van Overfelt, PhD, and Sergey Goncharov. The Emerging Markets Blend Strategy combines the best ideas from the emerging market sovereign and corporate debt strategies in hard currencies with a local currency overlay "a solution for US investors who desire to outsource their emerging market fixed income allocation. The strategy is managed by an experienced group of portfolio managers within the Emerging Markets Bonds team: Luc D?hooge, CFA, Sergey Goncharov, Wouter Van Overfelt, PhD, Thierry Larose, and Carl Vermassen. The portfolio managers on these three emerging markets strategies have an average of 25 years of experience, and have been managing these strategies since their respective inceptions.