DNCA Sérénité Plus
Short-term eurozone bonds
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Key points
Management of short-term interest rate products in the Eurozone.
- Flexible and active management of short-term fixed income products, with up to 10% equity investment.
- Rigorous security selection based on in-depth analysis of issuers based on financial and extra-financial (ESG) criteria.
- A selection of euro-denominated bonds with no rating constraints.
Managers comments May 2025
NAV
€124.69
Risk indicator
Lower risk
Higher risk
Risks :
- Risk of capital loss
- Risk relating to discretionary management
- Interest-rate risk
- Credit risk
- Liquidity risk
- Risk related to the use of forward financial instruments
- Specific Risks linked to Convertible, Exchangeable and Mandatory Convertible Bonds
- Equity risk
- Counterparty risk
- Risk related to investing in speculative securities
- Specific risks of investing in contingent convertible bonds ("Cocos")
- Sustainability risk
performance and volatility
as of 2025-07-02
Year-to-date performance
+1.81%
+3.96%
+0.91%
+9.52%
0.96%
Footnotes
*The inception date of the Fund is 2011-01-18
DNCA Sérénité Plus continued its good momentum over the month (+ 0.32%), reaching+ 1.58% since the beginning of the year.
Within the portfolio, Abertis, Iberdrola, Rabobank and British Telecom are exercising the early redemption option on their hybrid debt, as expected. For valuation reasons, the Ethias 1/26 line has been sold, while the AT1s in the Intesa and Commerzbank portfolios have been reinforced. Sabadell is back in the portfolio via an AT1 and a Tier 2 with a call of less than one year, with both bonds offering a strong incentive for the issuer to redeem early. The primary market offers good investment-grade opportunities with longer maturities: Lundbeck 4 years, Equinix 4 years, RCI Banque 5 years, Piraeus Bank 3.5 years and Transdev 3 years. Following the market's return to less comfortable valuation levels, the government bond component was strengthened by the purchase of Spain 10/2030. Lastly, the high-yielding, high-quality companies SNF, IQVIA, Loxam and Wizz Air have been reinforced, as have the hybrids EDF and Veolia Environnement.
Duration was increased by all these operations and by the strengthening of the derivative position on 5-year Germany, reaching 1.5 at the end of the month.
The extra-financial characteristics of the portfolio show a responsibility performance of /responsability_score and a sustainable transition exposure of 82.06%.
The markets have regained all their optimism - and valuation - from before D. Trump's massive announcements. However, it's hard to imagine that the customs measures already underway, the ongoing threats and, above all, the widespread uncertainty will not have an impact on the global economy. We prefer to maintain a cautious approach to management, with low overall credit risk and sensitivity revised upwards. In this way, our ability to intervene should the markets react in the coming weeks remains intact.