What is the Active Edge?
Markets are more complex and unpredictable than ever. Global equity indices are increasingly concentrated, asset class relationships are in flux, and rising debt, inflation and interest rates are creating new systemic risks. Meanwhile, traditional buy-and-hold strategies and static allocation models can leave you exposed to these shifts.
In today's market, you need portfolios that can navigate change, manage risk, and capture opportunity, wherever it emerges. That's what the Active Edge delivers: agile, resilient strategies that evolve with market conditions and your changing needs, helping to give you the edge to stay ahead in any environment.
Discover today's active opportunities
What matters most to you?
Investments give you a stake in the future. Whether you're looking for an investment that reflects your values and will help you to achieve your personal goals; or you're thinking more broadly about how your family, your community, or the planet could benefit when good decisions are made in the right areas.
Unleashing growth through thematic investing
Innovation is nothing new. What has changed, however, is the speed and scale at which it is occurring.
For investors, thematic investing offers the chance to potentially benefit from the economic, political, demographic, environmental and technological forces driving global innovation.
Reshaping private markets
Schroders is delighted to partner with Hargreaves Lansdown, the UK’s number one investment and savings platform, to offer the UK’s first Long-Term Asset Funds (LTAFs) tailored for experienced private investors. These funds provide direct, cost-effective access to private markets through an exclusive share class, opening up asset classes and opportunities that have historically been reserved for large institutional and high-net-worth investors.
Why having the Active Edge is important: what our clients think
Source: Schroders Global Investor Insights Survey 2026
85%
are confident active management can help achieve investment objectives, up from 75% last year.
50%
equity and credit investors look across public and private markets to meet objectives.
48%
value active management for its ability to manage concentration risk in equity markets.
Active
For more than 200 years, clients have trusted us to help them achieve better investment outcomes. This legacy shapes our perspective - but our focus is firmly on the future.
Our commitment to innovation and independent thinking empowers an active approach designed to work directly for you. Selectivity helps you avoid concentration traps. Flexibility enables you to pivot when correlations shift. Foresight positions you ahead of systemic risks. This is how we pursue resilient returns while managing the risks other approaches may miss.
Edge
When markets disproportionally reward the biggest names, we can help you find value in overlooked areas. When traditional diversification fails, our active approach can help you maintain true portfolio resilience.
You'll benefit from teams that think differently, that constantly anticipate change and adapt their approach. We can help you navigate complexity with confidence by drawing on global insights and specialised knowledge. Our original research, leveraging cutting-edge proprietary tools, can uncover opportunities for you that others don't see. That's how you keep your edge - whatever comes next.
See things differently
Our CIOs discuss how change demands a heightened perspective.
"At Schroders, we're unashamedly active. We're now in a world where changing economic and geopolitical events are creating perpetual uncertainty. But within all that lies great opportunity for our clients."
Group CEO of Schroders