Quality bonds offer strategic advantages to HY portfolios through the credit cycle. Today, we believe there is additional value in tactically increasing BB-rated bond allocations.

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By Catherine LeGraw and Ben Inker

07 February 2025

GMO’s Asset Allocation team on why they believe a dedicated, active mandate is the only way to fully capture the opportunity in emerging market debt.

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A High-Quality Moment in High Yield

By Rachna Ramachandran and Mina Tomovska

05 March 2025

Quality bonds offer strategic advantages to HY portfolios through the credit cycle. Today, we believe there is additional value in tactically increasing BB-rated bond allocations.

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Three Reasons to Consider Dedicated Emerging ...

By Catherine LeGraw and Ben Inker

07 February 2025

GMO’s Asset Allocation team on why they believe a dedicated, active mandate is the only way to fully capture the opportunity in emerging market debt.

ESG Investing

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Horizons Strategy

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The GMO Horizons Strategy is a global strategy reflecting the view that the world economy is transitioning to a lower carbon future, and that this process will create opportunities for investors to generate excess returns. The Str...

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Climate Change Strategy

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The GMO Climate Change Strategy seeks to deliver high total return by investing primarily in equities of companies GMO believes are positioned to benefit, directly or indirectly, from efforts to curb or mitigate the long-term effe...

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Jeremy Grantham

Long-Term Investment Strategist, Co-Founder

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Mr. Grantham co-founded GMO in 1977 and is a member of GMO’s Asset Allocation team, serving as the firm’s long-term investment strategist. He is the Chairman of the GMO Board of Directors, a partner of the firm, and has also served on the investment boards of several non-profit organizations. Prior to GMO’s founding, Mr. Grantham was co-founder of Batterymarch Financial Management in 1969 where he recommended commercial indexing in 1971, one of several claims to being first. He began his investment career as an economist with Royal Dutch Shell. Mr. Grantham earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Sheffield (U.K.) and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is a member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences, holds a CBE from the UK and is a recipient of the Carnegie Medal for Philanthropy.

Tom Hancock

Head of Focused Equity, Portfolio Manager

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Dr. Hancock is the Head of GMO’s Focused Equity team and a portfolio manager for GMO’s Quality Strategies. Dr. Hancock is a partner of the firm. Previously at GMO, he was Co-Head of the Global Equity team. Prior to joining GMO in 1995, he was a research scientist at Siemens and a software engineer at IBM. Dr. Hancock holds BS and MS degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a PhD in Computer Science from Harvard University.