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Fixed Income

Sterling Capital manages institutional assets for a diverse group of clients, including corporate, public, insurance, non-profits, and health care investment pools.

Overview

Our primary goals are long-term, consistent investment performance and exceptional client service. We achieve these goals by maintaining a consistent process for managing risk and a complete focus on developing strong client relationships.

Sterling Capital's Fixed Income team strives to deliver consistent, superior risk-adjusted performance over time through a multi-faceted approach to investing. Based on our team's forecast for the broader economy and specific market sectors, we utilize a variety of strategic and tactical levers that allow us to construct portfolios for any type of market environment.

Due to the asymmetric risk/return profile of bonds, we believe in the importance of quantifying risk prior to assessing the potential return of any investment. We analyze risk on both a stand-alone basis and within the portfolio context and firmly believe that when it comes to risk, “if you cannot measure it, you cannot manage it.”

Fixed Income

Insights

10.07.2025 • Charles Wittmann, CFA®

The Lead - Thawing in Housing?

- Our investment team has discussed what areas of the market appear to be overlooked and may have the ability to distinguish themselves.
- An area that has slowed dramatically, been in an “Ice Age” of sorts, has been the U.S. housing industry, where the increase in mortgage rates and challenged affordability has greatly lowered activity.
- Could lower rates improve affordability and new home sales? Lower rates may also encourage greater investment from current owners to invest in repairing and remodeling their homes. Housing may be an area of emerging thematic optionality for investors.

10.03.2025 • Michael McVicker

Municipal Bonds: Tax Free, with Exceptions

Understanding AMT & De Minimis Impacts

09.24.2025 • Tom O'Toole

The Sterling Capital VAULT: U.S. Housing

Tom O'Toole's update on U.S Housing since 2020.

09.09.2025 • Charles Wittmann, CFA®

The Lead - Fully Valued?

- Due to the large weight new additions of mega-cap stocks Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta in the Russell 1000 Value benchmark, we thought it would be helpful to provide our analysis.
- We believe our focus on valuation discipline was a foundational pillar of our process over that time period.
- Rather than entering the benchmark at a discount in 2025, each of these stocks are more expensive than the benchmark upon entry.
- We also discuss how this change also occurs at a time when growth stocks trade at close to historic premiums to value stocks.

08.28.2025

Press Release: Sterling Capital Parent Guardian Capital Group Limited to be taken private

Guardian Capital Group Limited announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Desjardins Global Asset Management Inc., an affiliate of Desjardins Group, a diversified financial institution, to go private in a transaction that values Guardian’s equity at approximately $1.21 billion.

08.25.2025 • Andrew Richman, CTFA

Powell Puts September Rate Cuts Firmly In Play

Andy Richman's update on the upcoming September Federal Open Market Committee meeting.

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