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.
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.
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.
Discover today's active opportunities
Bringing more of private markets to investors
The Long-Term Asset Fund (LTAF) is an FCA authorised fund, which is open-ended, evergreen and specifically designed to provide a broader set of investors with the access to invest efficiently in private assets. LTAFs present a new opportunity for UK savers with longer-term horizons to invest in illiquid assets whilst retaining access to their investment.
Strategies for buyout, low dependency, and run-on for defined benefit pension schemes
We help pension schemes get ‘endgame fit’, drawing on our practical experience to design strategies tailored to their goals. Whether focused on buy-out or purposefully running on, we deliver solutions that align with each scheme’s long-term objectives.
The expert edge in private markets
At Schroders Capital, where we go, we lead.
We harness our pioneering track record and specialist, expert edge to identify and transform areas of structural inefficiency and opportunity across global private markets. Through our focus on value creation, and enabled by our specialised mid-market expertise and global network, we unlock opportunities and deliver superior risk-adjusted returns at scale in the most attractive and high-growth segments of this evolving investment universe.
Underpinning everything we do is the strength and stability of Schroders Group, drawing on more than 220 years of heritage to provide enduring partnerships and confidence to help our clients reach their financial goals.
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