Schroder ISF* Global Energy
Offering exposure to companies across the conventional energy value chainOur approach
Schroder ISF* Global Energy aims to provide investors with focused, actively-managed, thematic exposure to companies across the conventional energy value chain that are playing a critical role in our energy system. The fund can invest across the entire energy value chain, including upstream production of oil gas, hydrogen, midstream operators, and service companies, as well as companies providing critical infrastructure, materials, and services for our future energy mix, including lithium production, diversified power production, low-carbon fuels, and carbon capture.
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Why Invest Now?
- The world is short of energy in the medium term and supply demand imbalances will continue to provide earnings support. There is no quick fix to the tightness in energy markets. Underinvestment and project deferrals will ultimately lead to higher prices.
- There is significant long-term re-rating potential. Significant long-term re-rating potential exists in companies that are embracing the transition to a cleaner energy system. As fundamental energy demand grows across both developed and emerging economies, this demand will need to be met by a diverse energy mix.
- A focused thematic approach and disciplined investment process is key. Our approach is centred on positioning client capital for long-term growth in a disciplined manner. We focus on ‘best-in-class’ businesses that offer an attractive and balanced risk-reward profile.
Investment Approach
- The fund offers clients active exposure to the entire energy mix – this means power, infrastructure and services; not just oil and gas.
- The fund is not designed to track oil price movements.
- The fund has balanced exposure, with typical holding weights between 2% and 5%. The fund holds between 35-50 active positions.
- There is no market capitalisation bias; investments are primarily made into firms with a market capitalistion of more than US$500 million.
- Investments are made on a global basis although most of the fund’s holdings are North American. There is also strong exposure to European firms.
- The fund offers shareholder returns, with leading energy companies demonstrating robust dividend cover and continued free cash flow generation, even in more moderate commodity price environments.
- Benefits from a strong sector-wide commitment to capital discipline, as management teams prioritise shareholder distributions through a significant proportion of free cash flow returned to investors.
Role in Portfolios
- As a cyclical investment opportunity that takes advantage of rising natural gas and oil prices over the investment cycle.
- As a long-term structural re-rating opportunity that takes advantage of structural transformation that certain businesses in this space are currently undertaking.
- As a source of equity diversification due to the commodity-linked focus and agnostic approach taken to geographies, style biases and traditional sectors.
Meet the Managers
Schroder ISF* Global Energy is managed by Head of Thematic Equities, Mark Lacey, and fund managers, Alex Monk and Felix Odey.
Risk considerations
*Schroder International Selection Fund is referred to as Schroder ISF.
- Capital risk / distribution policy: As the fund intends to pay dividends regardless of its performance, a dividend may represent a return of part of the amount you invested.
- Concentration risk: The fund may be concentrated in a limited number of geographical regions, industry sectors, markets and/or individual positions. This may result in large changes in the value of the fund, both up or down.
- Counterparty risk: The fund may have contractual agreements with counterparties. If a counterparty is unable to fulfil their obligations, the sum that they owe to the fund may be lost in part or in whole.
- Currency risk: If the fund’s investments are denominated in currencies different to the fund’s base currency, the fund may lose value as a result of movements in foreign exchange rates, otherwise known as currency rates. If the investor holds a share class in a different currency to the base currency of the fund, investors may be exposed to losses as a result of movements in currency rates.
- Currency risk / hedged share class: The currency hedging of the share class may not be fully effective and residual currency exposure may remain. The cost associated with hedging may impact performance and potential gains may be more limited than for unhedged share classes.
- Derivatives risk: Derivatives, which are financial instruments deriving their value from an underlying asset, may be used to manage the portfolio efficiently. A derivative may not perform as expected, may create losses greater than the cost of the derivative and may result in losses to the fund.
- Higher volatility risk: The price of this fund may be more volatile as it may take higher risks in search of higher rewards, meaning the price may go up and down to a greater extent.
- Liquidity risk: In difficult market conditions, the fund may not be able to sell a security for full value or at all. This could affect performance and could cause the fund to defer or suspend redemptions of its shares, meaning investors may not be able to have immediate access to their holdings.
- Market risk: The value of investments can go up and down and an investor may not get back the amount initially invested.
- Operational risk: Operational processes, including those related to the safekeeping of assets, may fail. This may result in losses to the fund.
- Performance risk: Investment objectives express an intended result but there is no guarantee that such a result will be achieved. Depending on market conditions and the macro economic environment, investment objectives may become more difficult to achieve.
Important information:
For professional investors and advisers only. The material is not suitable for retail clients. We define "Professional Investors" as those who have the appropriate expertise and knowledge e.g. asset managers, distributors and financial intermediaries.This document does not constitute an offer to anyone, or a solicitation by anyone, to subscribe for shares of Schroder International Selection Fund (the “Company”). Nothing in this document should be construed as advice and is therefore not a recommendation to buy or sell shares. An investment in the Company entails risks, which are fully described in the prospectus. Subscriptions for shares of the Company can only be made on the basis of its latest Key Information Document and prospectus, together with the latest audited annual report (and subsequent unaudited semi-annual report, if published), copies of which can be obtained, free of charge, from Schroder Investment Management (Europe) S.A.
Disclosures and Risk Factors
Collective investment schemes are generally medium to long-term investments.
The value of participatory interests or the investment may go down as well as up.
Past performance is not necessarily a guide to future performance.
Collective investment schemes are traded at ruling prices and can engage in borrowing and scrip lending.
A schedule of fees and charges and maximum commissions is available on request from the manager.
The manager does not provide any guarantee either with respect to the capital or the return of a portfolio.
The manager has a right to close the portfolio to new investors in order to manage it more efficiently in accordance with its mandate.
Issued in July 2025 by Schroders Investment Management Ltd registration number: 01893220 (Incorporated in England and Wales) is authorised and regulated in the UK by the Financial Conduct Authority and an authorised financial services provider in South Africa FSP No: 48998.
This is a Section 65 approved fund under the Collective Investment Schemes Control Act 45, 2002 (CISCA). Boutique Collective Investments (RF) (Pty) Ltd is the South African Representative Office for this fund. Boutique Collective Investments (RF) (Pty) Ltd is registered and approved under the Collective Investment Schemes Control Act (No.45 of 2002).