Corporate

Investment Overview

  • The DBF Corporate Composite includes all fixed income accounts, greater than $2 million, which contain exclusively USD-denominated corporate bonds.
  • The accounts typically maintain duration between 2 and 7 years.
  • Cash is not held as a tactical allocation. No derivatives are used.
  • The accounts are benchmarked to the Bloomberg U.S. Corporate 3-5 Year Index.

        Composition as of December 31, 2023

        Benchmarks

        The Bloomberg U.S. Corporate 3-5 Year Index consists of investment grade, fixed-rate, taxable, USD-denominated securities issued by US and non-US industrial, utility, and financial issuers with remaining time to maturity of 3 to 5 years. The benchmark is a sub-index of the Bloomberg US Corporate Index. The benchmark index returns include the reinvestment of income and dividends but do not include management fees and transaction costs. Both DBF returns and index returns reflect the reinvestment of dividends and other earnings. Indices are included for comparison purposes only and do not include transaction costs. Volatility, number of issues, capitalization size, year-to-year return history, and other security attributes of the indices differ from the attributes of the DBF portfolios.

        “Bloomberg®” and The Bloomberg U.S. Corporate 3-5 Year Index are service marks of Bloomberg Finance L.P. and its affiliates, including Bloomberg Index Services Limited (“BISL”), the administrator of the index (collectively, “Bloomberg”) and have been licensed for use for certain purposes by DBF. Bloomberg is not affiliated with DBF, and Bloomberg does not approve, endorse, review, or recommend The DBF Corporate Composite. Bloomberg does not guarantee the timeliness, accurateness, or completeness of any data or information relating to The DBF Corporate Composite.

        Company Description

        DB Fitzpatrick (DBF) is an independent investment management firm established in 1984 and is registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and licensed with the Idaho Department of Finance.  Registration does not imply a certain level of skill or training.  DBF manages a variety of equity, balanced, fixed-income, and commercial mortgage assets for institutional and individual clients.

        Notes

        1. Valuations and returns are computed and stated in U.S. Dollars.
        2. All account returns are net of transaction costs and reflect the reinvestment of dividends and other earnings. Gross returns do not reflect the deduction of the management fees. Net returns are net of model management fees in effect for the respective time period and are derived using the maximum rate of the fee schedule. Actual returns may vary.
        3. The minimum portfolio size for inclusion in the composite is $2,000,000.
        4. Future returns will depend on future allocation decisions. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. The investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that when redeemed, investments may be worth more or less than the original cost.
        5. Any investment, including DBF’s portfolios, has the potential of generating losses as well as profits.
        6. D.B. Fitzpatrick & Co., Inc. is the full legal name of the investment management firm.