Konstantin Leidman Profile
Konstantin Leidman, CFA
Fixed Income Portfolio Manager
London
As a high-yield portfolio manager on the Investment Boutiques Team, Konstantin is responsible for managing and contributing to various European high yield and fixed income strategies. He works in our London office.

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Opportunities in high yield: ready, steady, pounce?

Fixed income investors face a fundamentally different environment, but opportunities to target growth in high yield are emerging, provided investors can stay on the front foot.

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2025-09-30
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Meet the Manager: Konstantin Leidman

In this video, European high-yield manager Konstantin Leidman discusses how running marathons and being part of Wellington provides his team with a real edge.

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Konstantin Leidman, CFA

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2024-09-20
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Is there opportunity for high yield in today’s new economic era?

Is there opportunity for high yield in today’s new economic era? Portfolio Manager Konstantin Leidman explores.

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Konstantin Leidman, CFA

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2025-03-31
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Global high-yield outlook: Near term, defensive but longer term, solid

High-yield portfolio managers Mike Barry and Konstantin Leidman discuss their 2024 outlook and the merits of a near-term defensive stance with an eye on longer-term opportunities.

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2024-12-31
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How do bond investors approach the new volatile regime? 

Wellington fixed income experts provide an analysis on how to navigate short-term volatility and reposition portfolios for the structural changes occurring in fixed income markets. Watch the replay here. 

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2024-05-31
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High-yield bonds: Too early to get aggressive?

Our high-yield team suggests a somewhat defensive risk posture for now but expects opportunities to take on greater risk to arise later this year.

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2024-04-30
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What drives a consistent approach to high-yield fixed income?

As part of our Meet the Manager series we discuss with Fixed Income Portfolio Manager Konstantin Leidman the key drivers of his approach, ranging from the use of business moats to running marathons.

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Konstantin Leidman, CFA

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2023-12-31
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High yield: Opportunity to pivot in 2023?

Our high-yield bond portfolio managers have a guardedly optimistic outlook on the market and believe security selection will be key to benchmark-relative outperformance in 2023. 

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Preparing for both volatility and opportunity 

Fixed Income Portfolio Manager Konstantin Leidman discusses the emergence of new opportunities within a still volatile European high-yield market.  

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2023-12-31
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How to find potential in volatile European high-yield markets?

Fixed Income Portfolio Manager Konstantin Leidman discusses why European high-yield investors need to be ready for both further volatility and the emergence of new opportunities.  

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Konstantin Leidman, CFA

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2023-12-31
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High-yield bonds in 2023: Fortune favours the patient

Amid ongoing dislocation in the high-yield market, Fixed Income Portfolio Manager Konstantin Leidman sees opportunities for investors to take advantage of potentially attractive valuations.

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Konstantin Leidman, CFA

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2023-12-31
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Navigating an uncertain world: finding value in European high yield
Fixed Income Portfolio Manager Konstantin Leidman and Investment Specialist Jillian Rooney explore why recent spread widening has created a potentially attractive entry point into the European high-yield market.
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2022-12-31
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