LGIM Blog - Anne-Marie Morris (née Cunnold)

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AnneMarie Morris

Anne-Marie leads the team responsible for the strategy of objective-driven investment solutions, principally for Defined Benefit Pension Scheme clients. In partnership with the Solutions Portfolio Management team, her team structures and delivers strategies across LGIM’s derivative overlay, LDI and CDI strategies including Buy and Maintain credit. Anne-Marie joined LGIM in 2012, bringing industry experience from prior roles including investment strategy at BlackRock and senior fund manager in structured investments and solutions at Close Brothers Asset Management. Anne-Marie is a CFA charterholder, holds the Financial Derivatives paper from the CISI diploma and graduated from Cambridge University with a first class honours degree in Natural Sciences (theoretical physics). When not eulogising about derivatives and LDI, Anne-Marie might be found exploring historic buildings with her two boys.

Other articles by Anne-Marie Morris (née Cunnold)

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Time to increase your allocation to credit?

Recently, many DB schemes have expressed a strategic desire to increase corporate bond exposure but are questioning when and how given the current tight credit spreads.

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Webinar: Endgame OCIO

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Innovating in credit strategy

Pension schemes are looking for innovative credit solutions ranging from improving environmental impact to enhancing collateral efficiency.

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DB schemes: Is credit the answer?

Whether the target is buyout, low-risk self-sufficiency or surplus generation through run-off, we believe credit has an important role to play as schemes focus on their endgame.

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Rethinking collateral: a role for corporate bonds?

Recent market and regulatory developments have resulted in significantly higher collateral headroom requirements for LDI strategies. They have also reopened the door to pension schemes using corporate bonds as collateral.

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LDI chart update: What’s been driving the recent fall in yields?

November was an eventful month in LDI markets, with a reversal in the one-way traffic of rising yields. Here are some of the key themes we see behind this.

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Preparing for the endgame

DB pension schemes, which were in the eye of the market storm last autumn, in our view are now even better placed for their ‘endgame’.

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Four ways to make DB strategies even more resilient

We discuss how schemes can navigate a thorny investment landscape and prepare themselves for buyout.

4 tips for integrating ESG into LDI

4 tips for integrating ESG into LDI. we look at how to bring ESG more effectively into LDI mandates.

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