Our three-year engagement project on living wages comes to an end. We look at progress made and highlight what more needs to be done both within retailers and in their supply chains.

27th May 2022

How is F&C Investment Trust positioned against the current backdrop?

We analyse thousands of funds each quarter – in FundWatch we highlight the elusive few that manage to outperform on a consistent basis.

The characteristics, risks and opportunities of private equity investing

Many net zero commitments made by companies either implicitly or explicitly rely on carbon ‘offsetting’. We outline our principles on when companies should use carbon offsets and explore our engagement with businesses, especially in high impact sectors.

Our daily lives are becoming increasingly digitalised. Read our perspective on the opportunities and challenges this profound shift presents to businesses and some of the companies well placed to benefit.

Never has a research trip had so much discussion

Small caps have sold off, underperforming the wider equity market in the opening months of 2022. Lucy Morris discusses the top-down economic and market factors driving this underperformance and looks at how individual companies are reacting as well as looking at the factors that may trigger a recovery in performance.

Peter Hewitt, Portfolio Manager, BMO Managed Portfolio Trust, discusses how to navigate the investment challenges of 2022

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The news from Ukraine has been almost unbearable, and for the people of Ukraine, with no choice in the matter, truly awful.