About us
A fixed-income fund manager focusing on financial issuance.
Our investment team takes a highly active and tactical approach to selecting securities across Hybrids, Senior and Subordinated debt, all aimed at achieving a strong risk-adjusted returns. The clients of Seed Funds Management have received strong returns over the past ten years that have meaningfully outperformed the Solactive Hybrid Index.
Our Investment Universe includes:
Our Process
Philosophy
Seed Funds Management employs an actively managed, risk-first and income-focused investment strategy, targeting opportunities in the Australian financial fixed income markets.
Seed Funds Management believes that credit markets are structurally inefficient, often dominated by investors relying on passive or hold-to-maturity strategies.
These inefficiencies create opportunities for Seed Funds Management’s active management to exploit mispricing, reduce volatility, and deliver consistent, risk-adjusted returns through all phases of economic and interest rate cycles.
Seed Funds Management’s investment philosophy is grounded in six key principles.
Principals
- Capital Preservation: Prioritising return of capital as its core objective.
- Portfolio Risk Positioning: Aligning macroeconomic outlook with defensive or opportunistic portfolio construction.
- Yield Enhancement: Targeting securities that provide fair or excess compensation per unit of risk.
- Tactical Flexibility: Capitalising on relative value opportunities, structural supply-demand factors, and other credit market inefficiencies.
- Diversified Risk Management: Actively managing exposure across tenor, asset class, sector, credit rating, issuer, and security.
- Consistent Income: Delivering stable and reliable cash flows throughout the market cycle.
Process
Top-Down Analysis:
– Assess macroeconomic trends and risks.
– Monitor regulations and liquidity.
– Set portfolio risk levels accordingly.
Relative Value and Credit Analysis:
– Identify value across sectors, instruments, and issuers.
– Analyse supply/demand and credit quality.
– Engage with market participants.
Portfolio Construction and Tactical Analysis:
– Align investments with strategy, risk, and constraints.
– Optimise yield, liquidity, and diversification.
Investment Recommendation:
– Submit proposals to Investment Committee.
– Ensure alignment with strategy, risk profile, and compliance.
Risk Management:
– Monitor market, credit, liquidity, and concentration risks.
– Ensure compliance through ongoing oversight.
Our Service Providers include:
Seed Partnerships
Seed Partnerships is a firm dedicated to the funds management industry and is the parent company of Seed Funds Management.
Since 2015, we have focused on identifying top-tier fund managers to create customised solutions for the wealth market. We are proud to have raised several billion dollars for them throughout this journey.
Seed Partnerships owns, operates and co-exists with Seed Fund Management, a specialist fixed-income funds management business with extensive expertise in Australian corporates and financials, particularly APRA-regulated issuers.
$7.6 billion+
of capital raised
12
Initial Public Offerings
