T. Rowe Price promotes Matt Lawton to lead its Impact Fixed Income division.
In a significant move, global investment manager T. Rowe Price has appointed Matt Lawton as the Head of Impact Fixed Income. This decision reinforces the company's commitment to thoughtful, cohesive leadership and its growing focus on impact investing.
Matt Lawton, who has been serving as lead portfolio manager for the Global Impact Credit Strategy and the Global Impact Short Duration Bond Strategy, will continue to lead these strategies and oversee a team of impact fixed income investment professionals. His role includes expanding T. Rowe Price's impact fixed income capabilities and building out and scaling the company's impact fixed income business.
Lawton will work closely with Willem Visser, sector portfolio manager for Emerging Markets and Impact Fixed Income, and collaborate with T. Rowe Price's responsible investing, impact equity, and fixed income research teams. Samy Muaddi, Head of Emerging Markets Fixed Income at T. Rowe Price, has expressed support for Lawton's new role.
The Global Impact Credit Strategy and the Global Impact Short Duration Bond Strategy are impact investment strategies offered by T. Rowe Price. These strategies focus on impact investments and outperformance, aiming to generate measurable social and environmental benefits alongside financial returns.
Regarding future plans, while detailed publicly available specifics are limited, the ongoing emphasis on "Global Impact Credit" suggests T. Rowe Price intends to deepen its commitment to fixed income strategies that align with ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) and impact objectives. This focus aligns with broader market trends emphasizing these objectives in fixed income portfolios.
In addition, T. Rowe Price has plans to create a global blue bond strategy to support blue projects in emerging markets. This strategy is expected to further strengthen T. Rowe Price's strategic engagement with clients.
Matt Lawton joined T. Rowe Price in 2011. His investment track record has been deemed proven, and he has not been assigned any new responsibilities outside of impact fixed income. It is anticipated that Lawton’s role will expand in scope and influence as impact investing continues to grow within fixed income markets.
T. Rowe Price is a global investment manager with a strong reputation in the industry. The appointment of Matt Lawton as Head of Impact Fixed Income is a testament to the company's commitment to impact investing and its ambition to lead the way in this growing field.
Matt Lawton, in his new role as Head of Impact Fixed Income at T. Rowe Price, will oversee the expansion of the company's impact fixed income capabilities and scaling of its impact fixed income business, focusing on business growth within impact investing. As the lead portfolio manager for the Global Impact Credit Strategy and the Global Impact Short Duration Bond Strategy, Lawton will also continue to invest in strategies that aim for both financial returns and measurable social and environmental benefits.
