Our investment capabilities
Premium investment solutions based on your needs
Your investment interests are at the centre of our processes and product development efforts. Our scale and experience mean you benefit from award-winning service and some of the industry’s most advanced investment products, tailored to specific goals and requirements.
You can access our investment capabilities across the range of asset classes we manage, including equities, bonds, property, private equity and cash, together with multi-asset and liability-driven solutions, as well absolute return strategies.
Equities
With an active management style, our team of dedicated equity investment professionals is focused on generating consistent performance. Regular meetings with the management teams of the companies in which we are, or may be, invested, are central to our stock-picking insights – helping us spot opportunities the wider market has missed. Complementing this is our team-based approach, which ensures that our investment insights are leveraged to best effect across all geographies and asset classes.
Bonds
We offer a range of government, credit and inflation-linked bond strategies. Our bond team works closely with colleagues from the equity and corporate governance desks, and also benefits from the knowledge of our risk, actuarial, strategy and treasury teams. This allows our fixed interest analysts to share their ideas – to the ultimate benefit of our clients.
Absolute return strategies
Investors are increasingly looking to achieve consistent long-term returns without the volatility associated with equity investments. As a result, we developed our Global Absolute Return Strategies Fund (GARS). It is available to both institutional and retail investors, and seeks to provide positive investment returns in a variety of market conditions. In doing so, we invest in a combination of traditional investments, such as equities, bonds, property and cash, as well as advanced investment techniques, including relative value, inflation and duration.
Multi-asset and liability-driven solutions
A significant shift is taking place throughout the pensions industry. Increasingly, we’re finding that our clients are seeking to match their assets more closely to their liabilities, and are looking to invest in specialist multi-asset portfolios. We design award-winning* solutions to match individual pension fund needs - offering tailored multi-asset mandates that invest in equities, bonds, property, cash and private equity, and draw on a range of sophisticated investment strategies. We also manage traditional balanced funds for pension fund investors.
Property
Our property team has become one of the largest and fastest-growing real estate investment managers in the world. As one of the biggest property investors in Europe, we have access to some of the best deals in the market. A benefit of our size is that we can maintain specialised in-house expertise in research, development, marketing, rent collection, credit assessment and accounting. Strong research is a pivotal part of our process - focusing firstly on cashflows and secondly on bricks and mortar.
Private equity
Private equity funds provide a compelling means for investors to enhance performance and diversify their portfolios. We offer a broad range of investment options, including in-house capital and limited partnerships, Fund of Funds and other bespoke private equity investment services. We only invest in businesses with proven products, customers and revenues. Our aim is to maximise capital growth over time, using a blend of the key components of our business to deliver leading investment returns for our clients, while minimising risk.
Cash
The development of the money market industry and changes in the regulatory environment have made money market funds more accessible to a wider range of investors. More and more of our clients are recognising that specialised treasury solutions can offer a combination of positive returns, security and liquidity. Our long history in specialist cash management is testament to the skills and active management of our treasury team, who have over 90 years’ accumulated experience in cash management.
