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
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.
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.
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.
A choice of investment options in a changing world
At Schroders, we integrate ESG factors into our investment decision making across our managed assets because we believe this is fundamental to our goal of delivering attractive long-term returns for our clients.* We also have investment strategies that go beyond integration. Schroders’ sustainable and impact offering spans publicly listed as well as private assets and provides a variety of ways to invest in a changing world.
*For certain businesses acquired since 2020, we have not yet integrated ESG factors into investment decision-making. A small portion of our business for which ESG integration is not practicable or now possible, for example passive index tracking or legacy businesses or investments in the process of or soon to be liquidated, and certain joint venture businesses, is excluded.
Schroders’ funds in focus highlights key funds that aim to take advantage of current market opportunities to maximise returns across alternatives, equities, fixed income and multi-asset.
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”.
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 Chief Executive