Legal & General Investment Management America ("LGIMA") is a Chicago-based investment adviser, specializing in fixed income and liability driven investment solutions for the US institutional market. LGIMA manages over $16bn¹ in fixed income assets, with an emphasis on credit strategies.

LGIMA offers both active fixed income and liability driven investment ("LDI") strategies to the US institutional market. LGIMA benefits from the investment strategy and research resources of its global parent, while nimbly managing portfolios on a local basis. LGIMA provides the research capability, knowledge and depth of experience that institutional clients expect.

Our highly experienced fixed income team offers a wide range of fundamental research-driven strategies designed to capture alpha while minimizing interest rate risk.

We work with our affiliate, Legal & General Investment Management, which has one of the world's largest LDI teams to offer customized and holistic LDI solutions to our clients.  The team uses a wide range of derivative strategies, including interest rate swaps and equity futures and options, to construct customized portfolios designed to optimize the risk-reward trade-off.  The LDI team is part of a larger structured solutions group, which also produces customized investment portfolios for insurance companies and other institutional investors.

¹As of June 30, 2010. Source: LGIMA.