Our clients

Insurance

Columbia Threadneedle Investments has collaborated with wealth management partners, including Ameriprise, to design and grow successful solutions and advice propositions. With over a third of our global assets under management relating to insurance clients and our extensive expertise with large strategic partnerships such as Zurich, LV and RiverSource we have been able to showcase our proven record of building and developing long term partnerships with our insurer clients.

Our capabilities for Insurance

Fixed Income
We offer fixed income solutions with various risk and return objectives that range from traditional asset classes to more specialist areas such as emerging market debt, securitised debt and social bonds.
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Equities
We offer a wide range of global, regional and country specific strategies, investing across the market cap spectrum and with various risk and return objectives.
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Multi-Asset
We offer clients an extensive range of multi-asset solutions designed to meet a broad range of investment objectives.
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Real Estate
In a world where change is constant, successful real estate investing is about adapting to harness new opportunities – something our platform of diverse expertise and agility was built to do.
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Liability Driven Investment
Liability Driven Investment (LDI) is a popular and core risk management tool for pension schemes and insurance companies.
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Fixed Income
We offer fixed income solutions with various risk and return objectives that range from traditional asset classes to more specialist areas such as emerging market debt, securitised debt and social bonds.
Find out more
Equities
We offer a wide range of global, regional and country specific strategies, investing across the market cap spectrum and with various risk and return objectives.
Find out more
Multi-Asset
We offer clients an extensive range of multi-asset solutions designed to meet a broad range of investment objectives.
Find out more
Real Estate
In a world where change is constant, successful real estate investing is about adapting to harness new opportunities – something our platform of diverse expertise and agility was built to do.
Find out more
Liability Driven Investment
Liability Driven Investment (LDI) is a popular and core risk management tool for pension schemes and insurance companies.
Find out more

Insights

7 April 2025

David Oliphant

Executive Director, Fixed Income

Tariffs and credit markets

In the US, the Trump administration’s imposition of tariffs on imports from trading partners across the world has seen markets plunge. Here is what we are thinking as a credit desk and how we are approaching portfolios.
7 April 2025

Anthony Willis

Investment Manager

How much uncertainty can markets stomach?

The tariffs are expected to significantly impact the global economy, potentially raising US inflation and reducing growth. Markets around the world have sold off sharply.
4 April 2025

David Egan

Senior Research Analyst

Dick Manuel

Senior Analyst, Equity Research

How artificial intelligence is reshaping financial services

AI is helping enhance efficiency, reduce costs and improve decision-making.
4 April 2025

Gary Smith

Client Portfolio Manager, Fixed Income

Germany cuts the debt brakes with defence spending set to soar

The market reaction to European military defence plans has been enormous, with more volatility expected in bond yields, curves, cross-market spreads and currencies.
3 April 2025

Simon Bentley

Head of UK Solutions Client Portfolio Management

Adil Gulamali

Client Director, UK Institutional

LDI differentiator: the implementation manager role

Why an implementation manager can help simplify the governance structure for pension schemes, whilst potentially improving investment outcomes and reducing trustee risk.
2 April 2025

Steven Bell

Chief Economist, EMEA

Tariff turmoil, German rearmament: where will it all end?

Despite geopolitical uncertainty, we expect the global economy to remain resilient. Europe’s economy could beat expectations, and we are broadly positive on equities.
1 April 2025

Fixed Income Desk

In Credit - Weekly Snapshot

In Credit Weekly Snapshot – March 2025

Our fixed income team provide their weekly snapshot of market events.
31 March 2025

Steven Bell

Chief Economist, EMEA

Passing the baton

Ahead of Steven Bell’s looming retirement we are pleased to introduce Anthony Willis, Senior Economist, as the new host of our weekly Market Perspectives video.
24 March 2025

Steven Bell

Chief Economist, EMEA

Are the UK public finances doomed?

Later this week the UK Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, will present her Spring Statement, which includes a fiscal outlook and public spending plan.

Our Clients

Columbia Threadneedle Investments has extensive expertise in partnering with banks and wealth managers to grow their businesses, including a small number of select deep partnerships.

Columbia Threadneedle Investments has collaborated with wealth management partners, including Ameriprise, to design and grow successful solutions and advice propositions.

  • Columbia Threadneedle Investments has partnered with affiliated and unaffiliated wealth managers globally, including the US, UK and South Africa at the mass market, mass affluent, and affluent levels.
  • Columbia Threadneedle Investments has expertise in working with financial planning providers in the development of investment advisory programs including multi asset and multi manager portfolios, and support for advisor forces to help them fully understand and serve clients with our solutions.
  • Ameriprise itself is the leader in financial planning in the US, with more Certified Financial Planners than any other firm. Our know-how has led to Ameriprise having the deepest and broadest client relationships of any leading firm in the US.
  • Ameriprise is a leader in fee-based investment advisory programs, with over $250bn of AUM . Columbia Threadneedle Investments has helped create and manage key offerings within this program (e.g. discretionary models for accumulation, income, wealth preservation).

The UN Sustainable Development Goals & Our Themes

Translating the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to investment opportunities provides us, our clients, and the wider industry, with a compelling means to contribute to sustainable development whilst aiming to achieve positive financial returns.

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About us

Millions of people around the world rely on Columbia Threadneedle Investments to manage their money. We look after investments for individual investors, financial advisers and wealth managers, as well as insurance firms, pension funds and other institutions.

Our funds

Columbia Threadneedle Investments has a comprehensive range of investment funds catering for a broad range of objectives.

Investment strategies

We design our capabilities to suit specific markets and we carefully create them with your needs in mind. This is based on our belief that an active approach to investment will deliver long-term value for your portfolios.

Meet the team​

Andrew Nicholl
Global Business Lead for Responsible Investment
Andrew Nicholl
Global Business Lead for Responsible Investment