Types of investment​

Multi-Manager

Multi-Manager People

Today’s investor enjoys the choice from thousands of available funds. Whilst that’s great news, making sense of the options can be a daunting task. We see our job as making investing easier.

How do we do this?

We work by selecting what we believe to be the very best investment talent from right across the industry and combining them together into well-balanced portfolios. We believe that our approach combined with the advantages inherent in Multi-Manager investing offers a host of benefits.

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Structural 'true' diversification

Perhaps the most important principle of successful investment. We invest across asset classes, geographies, management companies and investment styles.
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Whole of market

Why restrict your opportunity set? We’re independent fund ‘selectors’ and aren’t constrained by ‘buy-lists’.
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Actively managed

There’s nothing passive about how we invest. We actively adjust asset allocation, select funds, build portfolios and manage risk.
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Proven performers

Price matters but value is key. Over the long-term our funds have consistently delivered performance whilst at the same time offsetting the impact of investment and financial advice costs.
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Ease and tax efficiency

A one stop-portfolio ‘service’. Single fund structure reduces administrative burden for clients.

Podcasts

24 what ifs for 2024, with TwentyFour Asset Management

In the first podcast of the year, we look ahead to events and trends which could drive economies and financial markets. What if central banks ease monetary policy and what impact will politics have as half the world’s population head to the polls? What if artificial intelligence takes all of our jobs and will Swansea City FC make the play-offs?

Open minded to Closed Ended pt II – Augmentum Fintech

In part two of our ‘Open Minded to Closed Ended’ miniseries, Adam chats with entrepreneur turned venture capital investor Tim Levene, CEO of Augmentum. Adam and Tim explore how the team works alongside budding entrepreneurs, discuss how the large financial incumbents are likely acquirers of fintechs and highlight how successful cash exits are important.

Open minded to Closed Ended pt I – The Renewables Infrastructure Group

In the series, we aim to highlight why accessing markets outside through listed Investment Trusts is additive for Multi-Manager portfolios, and shouldn’t be just the privilege of private markets. First up, The Renewables Infrastructure Group, a trust dedicated to the generation of power from renewable sources for UK and Europe.

Insights

4 April 2025

Anthony Willis

Investment Manager

Multi-Manager Perspectives: Is a global trade war now inevitable?

It has been a week completely dominated by the build up to and fallout from President Trump’s long-awaited speech on “reciprocal tariffs”.
28 March 2025

Anthony Willis

Investment Manager

Multi-Manager Perspectives: The Chancellor buys some time, but the UK outlook remains grim

The market mood started out a little more positive this week, with US equities continuing to rally from their lows earlier this month.
21 March 2025

Anthony Willis

Investment Manager

Multi-Manager Perspectives: Dealing with “unusually elevated uncertainty”

The week has been dominated by central bank meetings, though as expected there were no actual shifts in policy from the US Federal Reserve, the Bank of England or the Bank of Japan.
14 March 2025

Anthony Willis

Investment Manager

Multi-Manager Perspectives: The end of US exceptionalism? Don’t be too hasty

It has been another volatile week in equity and bond markets as investor sentiment remains fragile, with worries over trade wars and softening economic data weighing on sentiment.
7 March 2025

Anthony Willis

Investment Manager

Multi-Manager Perspectives: Another ‘game changing’ week unfolds

Markets have seen heightened volatility this week as a result of uncertainty created by President Trump’s policies on geopolitics and trade, with US equities struggling.
28 February 2025

Anthony Willis

Investment Manager

Multi-Manager Perspectives: Is fragile sentiment starting to weigh more heavily on markets?

Equity markets have been mixed – European indices have fared stronger than their US counterparts, but the tariff news in the past 48 hours has taken European indices down from all-time highs.
21 February 2025

Anthony Willis

Investment Manager

Multi-Manager Perspectives: Have we just seen a geopolitical earthquake?

As talks begin between the US and Russia, this past week has given us plenty of signals over the US government’s policy priorities.
14 February 2025

Anthony Willis

Investment Manager

Multi-Manager Perspectives: President Trump continues to drive the news agenda

Another busy week for news with tariffs never being too far from the headlines.
7 February 2025

Anthony Willis

Investment Manager

Multi-Manager Perspectives: Markets just about shrug off yet more tariff uncertainty

It has been another busy week dominated by news from the US president thanks to the imposition – now delayed – of punitive tariffs on Canada and Mexico, and tariffs on China that have gone ahead.

Multi-Manager Funds & Key Documents

Our Navigator Solutions

The CT MM Navigator range is designed to make investing easier. The range contains five risk profiled options spanning income, total return and growth objectives. Each multi-manager portfolio is highly diversified and is constructed through careful fund selection within an asset mix appropriate to the returns profile it is trying to achieve.

Our Lifestyle Solutions

The CT MM Lifestyle range offers a range of options so investors can choose the balance of risk and potential reward that’s right for them. The range draws on independent asset allocation expertise together with the multi-manager capabilities. Each fund has defined asset allocation parameters with the portfolios constructed through a blend of carefully selected actively managed funds together with more cost effective passive options.

Structural 'true' diversification

Perhaps the most important principle of successful investment. We invest across asset classes, geographies, management companies and investment styles.

Whole of market

Why restrict your opportunity set? We’re independent fund ‘selectors’ and aren’t constrained by ‘buy-lists’.

Proven performers

Price matters but value is key. Over the long-term our funds have consistently delivered performance whilst at the same time offsetting the impact of investment and financial advice costs.

Actively managed

There’s nothing passive about how we invest. We actively adjust asset allocation, select funds, build portfolios and manage risk.

Ease and efficiency

A one stop-portfolio ‘service’. Single fund structure reduces administrative burden for clients.

Q4 23 CT Multi-Manager – There may be trouble ahead…

Multi-Manager webinars

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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.

Our capabilities

We offer a broad range of actively managed investment strategies and solutions covering global, regional and domestic markets and asset classes.