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
Why Schroders for active ETFs?
Our approach to active ETFs is no different to our other offerings and is built around delivering consistent, long-term growth for our clients. By focusing on the intrinsic value and potential of investments, we endeavour to provide resilient, long-term returns despite market fluctuations. As an active ETF provider, we offer both active equity ETFs and active fixed income ETFs to meet varied investor needs.
Why go global with equities?
Our equities platform manages over £240bn in assets*. Our 40+ global equities portfolio managers and global equities sector specialists are backed by over 100 equity analysts worldwide. We specialise in decision-making under uncertainty, ensuring that portfolios are carefully balanced to manage risk effectively.
*As of December 2025.
How do we add value in the world's largest & most liquid equity market?
Our US Large Cap strategy offers investors access to a diversified portfolio of high conviction US large cap investment ideas. Managed by Schroders’ Global Equities team, the strategy seeks to exploit persistent market inefficiencies, investing in underappreciated companies that will ‘surprise’ the market by delivering forward earnings growth ahead of expectations; stocks we believe have a positive “growth gap”.
Why Private Markets for private clients?
Private markets investments can provide unique benefits that are not available in public markets. They can provide private clients with potentially higher returns, diversification benefits, and the ability to invest in assets that more closely align with their personal values and interests.
Why Schroders for multi-asset investing?
Schroders Global Multi-Asset Portfolios (GMAP) combine active management, dynamic asset allocation and broad diversification in a single solution, helping advisers deliver strong client outcomes without the burden of day-to-day portfolio management. Backed by one of the industry's leading multi-asset teams and available from just 0.22% AMC, GMAP offers a compelling blend of expertise, flexibility and value.
What are investment trusts?
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.
Why Schroders for value?
The Schroder Global Value Team is a specialist value investing boutique within Schroders. Made up of ten individuals that have chosen to dedicate their careers to fundamental value investing, we offer public market equity strategies across a suite of UK, European, Global & International products.
See things differently
Our CIOs, Johanna Kyrklund and Georg Wunderlin, discuss how change demands a heightened perspective, emphasising the importance of active investment strategies.
"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