The fund seeks to generate absolute returns over a complete market cycle. It utilizes a comprehensive top-down and bottom-up investment process focused on the risk-reward relationship of individual credit investments in a diversified portfolio. The portfolio primarily invests in North American corporate debts, but may include other debt securities across countries, maturities, and credit qualities. The fund employs various alternative strategies, including a) opportunistic use of leverage and short-selling, b) use of macroeconomic forecasts to establish investment themes and industries, c) long positions in securities based on fundamental research, d) long/short positions in securities based on an issuers forward-looking credit profile, e) short positions in government bonds to reduce interest rate sensitivity and f) opportunistic hedging of overall market exposure. The fund is actively managed and may invest up to 100% of its assets in US or other foreign debt securities.