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.
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Stay active for a healthy portfolio
Investing in the stock market (shares or equities) has traditionally been seen as a good way of beating inflation and generating attractive returns in the long term. This still makes sense but what worked over the past decade won’t necessarily work in the next. The world is being shaped by a host of new forces and companies will need change the way they operate in order to be successful over the long term. That’s why we believe active management is key to capturing stock market opportunities - using experience, insights and innovation to help you navigate a changing market.
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.
Specialists to steer you towards your investment goals
There are well over 30,000 bonds to choose from, and many risks to consider. You need specialists in economics and individual bond markets to formulate a view. You need analysts that understand each company in depth, to spot opportunities and risks, build the right strategy and then actively manage it as market conditions change. Our strategies consider E, S and G themes, such as inequality and the clean energy transition, alongside non-ESG themes, such as AI. We believe these themes may drive future risks and opportunities in the market.
We shape strategies to meet long-term goals
For some individuals and advisers, we offer ready-made, balanced portfolios, designed to deliver the best possible value for money. We aim to tailor investments to meet your needs and understand the importance of sustainability in relation to diversification and risk.
There are compelling reasons to be active in emerging markets
Emerging markets can be more volatile, and often overreact to new information. But volatility provides opportunities for experienced active managers to take advantage of – such as anticipating shifts in index weightings instead of reacting to them. Active managers can also help you manage the risks, while watching for and weathering change in a way that passive funds can’t.
Everyone’s a stakeholder when it comes to sustainability
We have built our sustainable investing experience over the past 20 years, developing our thematic sustainability research and a suite of proprietary tools. Our research and tools provide insights which help our investors understand the various sustainability risks and opportunities faced across their portfolios.
Discover today's active opportunities
In the new investment landscape, our clients need active management, with expertise across public and private markets, to future proof their portfolios and achieve their 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