NEI Global Total Return Bond Fund
2025 Winner Canada 10-year performance,
Global Core Plus Fixed Income
Today’s environment—yield volatility, persistent inflation, and rising global debt loads—demands a more thoughtful approach to fixed income investing. Global fixed income strategies can offer broader geographical diversification, active duration management, and the ability to capture returns across currencies and credit markets.
Are your global fixed income exposures as diversified as your equity solutions? Shouldn’t they be?
Through uncertain and volatile markets, the Fund maximizes potential via diversification across a wider investment universe.
Using currencies, duration, yield curve positioning, sovereign and corporate credit selection, the Fund seeks to generate returns as well as reduce portfolio risk.
Actively managed by Amundi, the Fund earned a Lipper 10-year performance award and has been a consistent Morningstar 5-star rated fund.
Despite shifting geopolitics and volatile markets, too many global bond funds are overly concentrated in North America.
In contrast to the benchmark, which averages a 38% weight in U.S. fixed income1, NEI Global Total Return Bond Fund only holds 15%–18% in the U.S.2
The Fund’s unconstrained global strategy goes anywhere, giving it a broader opportunity set across regions and policy regimes.
Break out of home bias—compliment your portfolio construction
with the addition of a truly global bond fund with a demonstrated long-term track record.
Amundi Asset Management, Europe’s top largest asset manager and one of the world’s top 103 globally, is a specialist in fixed income and liquidity solutions.
Total assets under management4
Total AUM in fixed income and liquidity solutions4
Portfolio managers collaborating with over 50 credit analysts5
Locations: Paris, London, Milan, Barcelona, Munich, Vienna, Prague, Budapest, Tokyo, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan.
In our recent webinar, Reine Bitar shares her perspective on global bond markets and how the Fund is positioned for today’s environment.
[1] Source: Bloomberg as of March 31, 2026.
[2] As of March 31 2026, NEI Global Total Return Bond Fund
[3]Source: IPE “Top 500 Asset Managers” published in June 2025, based on assets under management as of December 2024.
[4]Source: Amundi as of December 31, 2025
[5]Source: Amundi as of April 15, 2026
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The Morningstar Sustainability RatingTM is used to evaluate how well the companies within a fund's holdings are managing their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risks in comparison to other funds in the Morningstar Global Category. The rating is depicted by globe icons, where five globes equal a strong ESG score (low ESG risk), and one globe equals a weak ESG score (high ESG risk). Only funds with at least 67% of their assets under management covered by Morningstar will receive a rating. The Morningstar Sustainability RatingTM is assigned to all funds that meet the criteria and is not limited to those with explicit sustainable or responsible investment mandates. Morningstar updates its sustainability ratings monthly. Morningstar also provides various other sustainability scores and ratings as well as carbon emissions metrics. Definitions of the scores, ratings and metrics are available from Morningstar here: https://www.morningstar.com/research/signature
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The LSEG Lipper Fund Awards, granted annually, highlight funds and fund companies that have excelled in delivering consistently strong risk-adjusted performance relative to their peers. The LSEG Lipper Fund Awards are based on the Lipper Leader for Consistent Return rating, which is an objective, quantitative, risk-adjusted performance measure calculated over 36, 60 and 120 months. The fund with the highest Lipper Leader for Consistent Return (Effective Return) value in each eligible classification wins the LSEG Lipper Fund Award. For more information, see lipperfundawards.com. Although LSEG Lipper makes reasonable efforts to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the data used to calculate the awards, their accuracy is not guaranteed.
The corresponding Lipper Leader ratings of the fund for the period ending July 31, 2025, are as follows: 4 (3 years), 5 (5 years), 5 (10 years). LSEG Lipper Leader Ratings are subject to change every month. Lipper Leader ratings is a calculation that ranks funds against its peers based on the metric used (such as Total Return or Expense), and the highest 20% of funds in each peer group are named Lipper Leaders and receive a rating of 5, the next 20% receive a rating of 4, the middle 20% are rated 3, the next 20% are rated 2, and the lowest 20% are rated 1.
NEI Global Total Return Bond Fund (Series F) was awarded the LSEG Lipper Fund Award Canada 2025 for best 10-year performance in the Global Core Plus Fixed Income category, selected from 17 funds for the period ending July 31, 2025.
