Invesco Bond Income Plus | Research

Rhys Davies, Portfolio Manager of Invesco Bond Income Plus, shares his insight on how BIPS is navigating the current bond environment in search of opportunities, highlighting the repricing of bond yields in 2022. This repricing has resulted in some high-yield bonds offering returns between 7% and 10% — significantly higher than what we've seen in recent years.

Rhys Davies, manager of the newly Elite Rated Invesco Bond Income Plus Limited (BIPS), discusses the origins, goals, and strategies of BIPS. Rhys explains how BIPS focuses on generating high income primarily from the high-yield bond market and highlights the advantages of a closed-ended vehicle for this strategy.

Rhys Davies provides an introduction to Invesco Bond Income Plus Limited, an investment trust aiming to obtain capital growth and high income from investment, predominantly in high-yielding fixed-interest securities.

Effective 22 July 2020 Rhys Davies was named lead Portfolio Manager and Edward Craven was appointed as deputy Portfolio Manager of BIPS. With effect from 19 May 2021, the Company was enlarged by the merger with Invesco Enhanced Income Limited by way of a contractual scheme of reconstruction, following which the Company changed its name to Invesco Bond Income Plus Limited. Here, Rhys provides us with an update on the combined portfolio.