Our Institutional Offering

Overview

We are an active, long-term and responsible partner for our clients. Our goal is to deliver an offering for pension funds and insurers that meets their varied requirements for sustainable, risk-adjusted returns.

Bespoke, actively-managed solutions

We have global reach combined with extensive experience of the challenges faced by institutions. Our active investment approach and deep-research capability aims to develop innovative and responsive solutions across asset classes, helping our clients meet their challenges decades into the future.

A powerful Responsible Investing capability

We have devoted substantial resources over time to build a valuable understanding of the risks and opportunities presented by environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors. Our proprietary analytical tools allow us to put sustainability at the heart of institutional portfolios with the goal of building investment resilience over the longer term.

Responsible investing

We developed our first responsible investment mandate in 1998 and have built substantial resources and industry-leading expertise to partner with asset owners and advisors to help address the greatest global challenges impacting our planet.

Positive impact investing

Our experience shows demand for sustainable investing has increased. Individual investors and companies are looking for solutions which will allow them to invest in a sustainable manner; strategies focused on delivering the kind of resilience that is necessary to navigate uncertain market conditions related to the unprecedented challenges that we and the planet face.

Responsible Investing is at the heart of what we do

We believe fundamentally that long-term, active responsible investing can deliver sustainable value for clients and create a positive impact on society and the environment. This has underpinned our work for more than 20 years in developing investment solutions that incorporate ESG considerations across all asset classes.

INSIGHTS

Responsible investing insights

Our team conducts regular detailed research into a broad range of ESG themes and sustainability trends to better understand how markets are evolving and how economies will adapt to changing conditions.

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Fixed income is an essential component in an institutional investor's portfolio allocation. Working with our clients, we design and implement fixed income strategies to target optimal outcomes.

Global scale & market access
Our scale and specialist expertise across a broad spectrum of fixed income strategies enables us to offer outcome-oriented, resilient solutions in line with client needs.

Whether a client is seeking attractive yields, to enhance portfolio diversification or generate sustainable and predictable cashflows, our investment professionals draw on extensive credit and macroeconomic research, our top-tier fixed income and derivatives trading capabilities and robust risk management tools.

Forward looking ESG analysis helps build resilient portfolios
Integral to our core fixed income investment processes, we believe that ESG factor analysis, together with active issuer engagement, broadens our opportunity set, is critical to effective risk management and leads to more resilient and sustainable outcomes for clients.

ESG and climate action video series

Watch Jane Wadia, Head of Investment Specialists and Solutions, explain how we incorporate ESG into pension fund portfolios.

Partnering with insurers to design and deliver optimal solutions for their investment portfolios and achieve their asset yield, capital efficiency and responsible investment objectives.

Insurers face a unique and increasingly complex set of investment challenges – from generating enough return on their assets to meet their future liabilities, through economic, regulatory and accounting constraints, to meeting the needs and expectations of a broad range of stakeholders – both now and for the decades to come. 

Our scale and deep understanding of these complex challenges enables us to offer investment solutions that cover the full investment spectrum from traditional to alternative assets, providing investment plans, deployment and portfolio management, whilst integrating multi-dimensional constraints and frameworks.

INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

Fixed income

We cover a broad spectrum of fixed income strategies to help investors build diverse portfolios that can be more resilient to economic and market shifts.

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Risks

The value of investments, and the income from them, can fall as well as rise and investors may not get back the amount originally invested. 

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