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

22 December 2025

Asset Allocation update - November 2025

We have seen a softening in market momentum led by US equities and based around two factors. Firstly, there are reduced expectations for an interest rate cut in the aftermath of the October’s Federal Reserve (Fed) meeting.
19 December 2025

Christopher Hult

Portfolio Manager, Investment Grade Credit

Tammie Tang

Portfolio Manager, Investment Grade Credit

Investment grade credit: Positioning for decompression

With valuations stretched, macro headwinds blowing and spreads near post-global financial crisis tights, our portfolio managers look at the state of the IG market
16 December 2025

In Credit Weekly Snapshot – Look to the future now, it’s only just begun

After an eventful 2025, what might be in store for 2026? Elsewhere, despite a few hurdles throughout the year, core investment grade markets are ending the year tighter than they started.
15 December 2025

Anthony Willis

Senior Economist, Multi-Asset Solutions team

Weekly Perspectives: Looking forward to 2026

It is our final update of the year but there is plenty going on this week in financial markets.
11 December 2025

Gordon Bowers

Research Analyst, Emerging Markets

Kate Moreton

Sovereign Research Analyst, Emerging Markets Debt

Eng Tat Low

Sovereign Research Analyst, Emerging Markets Debt

Unlocking innovation in emerging markets debt

A new generation of state-contingent debt instruments is reshaping the emerging markets (EM) landscape, creating value for investors and providing creative solutions for sovereigns.
10 December 2025

Krishan Selva

Client Portfolio Manager

Moira Gorman

Client Relationship and Sales Director

Big, broad, innovative – the case for emerging market equities

Discussing the case for emerging market equities – including a weaker US dollar – and the potential benefits of adopting an active approach.
9 December 2025

In Credit Weekly Snapshot – Big in Japan

Bond yields ratcheted higher globally last week, with a key trigger being shifting interest rate expectations in Japan. Will there be moves to repatriate overseas bond holdings to take advantage of these higher domestic rates? Read on for a breakdown of fixed income news across sectors and regions.
8 December 2025

Anthony Willis

Senior Economist, Multi-Asset Solutions team

Weekly Perspectives: What happens when Japan hikes rates?

This week we take a closer look at Japan and the likelihood of an interest rate hike at the end of December.
3 December 2025

Paul Doyle

Head of Large Cap European Equities

European rally set to continue and performance broaden out

Improvements have been driven by banks and defence, and these may continue to perform, but as earnings growth rises in 2026 we expect performance to deepen.

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