Investment
Strategies
Our track record in difficult markets, driven by our consistent, cycle-tested investment approach, has led to long-term relationships with investors.
Liquid Leveraged Credit
CFIP manages portfolios of senior secured loans and high yield bonds, both within structures and on a stand-alone basis. We utilize rigorous fundamental analysis seeking to identify the most attractive companies in these markets.
Opportunistic
Credit
CFIP’s innovative strategy strives to deliver superior risk-adjusted returns across structured and corporate credit markets.
Traditional
Fixed Income
CFIP’s Head of Public Investment Grade has extensive experience identifying opportunities in credit, duration, and volatility in strategies such as Core Plus, Core, and Cash Management.1
Sustainability
At CFIP, we view financially material Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors as a natural expansion of traditional, financial risk factors, and the inclusion of these factors as part of our fiduciary responsibility to our clients.
We believe that companies that perform well on financially material ESG factors make good investments. Well-run businesses devote time and resources to address these factors and position themselves for long-term success. By contrast, companies that fail to adequately address financially material ESG concerns expose themselves to heightened risks that can significantly impact long-term financial performance. When done well, the inclusion of these factors in an investment process should maximize risk-adjusted financial returns over the long run for clients.
ESG Investing Policy
The Environmental, Social, and Governance (“ESG”) Investment Policy sets out CFIP’s commitment and general approach to the consideration of ESG factors in the investment process and the management of ESG issues through the lifecycle of an investment.
Active Stewardship Policy
The Active Stewardship Policy describes how CFIP will engage on ESG-related and other financial issues related to investments, where opportunities exist, consistent with and subject to any applicable fiduciary, legal, regulatory, and contractual requirements.
DEI Policy
The Diversity Equity and Inclusion (“DEI”) Policy describes CFIPs commitment to DEI, and outlines CFIP’s approach to firmwide implementation of DEI initiatives.
CFIP Sustainability Report
Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) recommendations have informed the contents of this report, in which we outline our climate action strategy and report on our progress.
INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIPS
As a PRI signatory2, CFIP incorporates sustainability factors into our investment decisions where consistent with our fiduciary responsibilities. We assist clients and peers seeking to become PRI signatories and provide firm-wide employee training.
As a TCFD supporter3, CFIP is committed to aligning our disclosures with the TCFD’s recommendations to demonstrate our proactive stance towards climate-related risk management to our investors and other stakeholders and promoting more informed decision-making within our investment portfolio.
As a member of AIMA, CIFP aims to collaborate with industry peers to foster the advancement of sustainable investing across the alternative investment landscape.
CFIP conducts ESG analysis using a range of tools and resources, including reporting provided by entities directly, as well as third-party ESG ratings and research. These tools and resources may include MSCI ESG Data, third-party ESG ratings and scores such as Sustainalytics accessed via Bloomberg, ESG commentary provided by Moody’s and S&P ratings where available, and sustainability and ESG reports provided directly from investee entities.
