Standish

Specialists in currency and risk management

Standish is based in Boston, with offices in Pittsburgh and San Francisco, USA. The firm is one of the world's largest dedicated fixed-income managers.

Standish provides customised solutions for a wide variety of sophisticated investors around the world, drawing on the skill and experience of investment specialists collaborating across a broad spectrum of fixed-income disciplines. The firm's strategies incorporate guidelines, benchmarks and risk tolerances tailored to specific client objectives, including a dedicated group that provides comprehensive, specialised services for insurance clients.

Standish's investment process strives to capture relative value opportunities created by market inefficiencies. The firm uses proprietary research to identify new and changing sources of excess return and uses qualitative judgement supported by quantitative tools, to implement its investment views. Most recently, Standish's capability has been extended to include fixed-income absolute-return strategies.


Investment scope:

  • Absolute return and hedge funds
  • High yield and emerging market debt
  • Long, intermediate and short duration
  • Structured products
  • US and global credit