Types of investment

Global Investment Solutions

For over 20 years Columbia Threadneedle’s world class solutions team has applied a deep understanding of our clients’ challenges to develop and manage innovative customised solutions. Our range of solutions draw on the breadth of Columbia Threadneedle’s global capabilities and expertise with a laser focus on meeting client needs.

Solutions include:

  • Customised growth strategies 
  • Regulatory-sensitive insurance mandates 
  • Insurance solutions 
  • Liability-driven investment 
  • Pension matching solutions 
  • Fiduciary management /Outsourced Chief Investment Officer (OCIO) 
  • Manager Search & Selection

The building blocks used by our experienced teams of global investment solutions specialists follow a tried and tested approach. We focus on:

  • Applying a deep understanding of our clients’ investment needs 
  • Drawing on our strong research, risk management, portfolio construction and multi-manager expertise 
  • Providing an enhanced operating, reporting and client service model

Why choose Columbia Threadneedle for global investment solutions?

Our global investment solutions business is driven by client need. Our journey together starts with a commitment to understanding the client’s business, the outcomes they are trying to achieve, their specific challenges and the regulatory environment that they operate in.

We take a consultative approach in identifying investment requirements and then combine the necessary building blocks to offer a fit-for-purpose investment solution. Our open architecture approach offers clients access to a wide range of capabilities from within Columbia Threadneedle and external managers from around the world, carefully identified and selected by our manager research team.

Our heritage as a manager of insurance and pensions assets provides us with the necessary investment, risk management, governance and oversight tools to effectively build portfolios tailored to specific client needs. Across our strategic insurance partners, pension funds, foundations, corporations, trusts, investment advisers and individual investors we have circa $200bn of assets under management (as at December 2021).

28 November 2024

Simon Bentley

Managing Director, Head of UK Solutions Client Portfolio Management

Making sense of corporate bond spreads

When it comes to credit allocations we argue it makes sense for pension schemes to prioritise strategic objectives over tactical considerations
8 October 2024

Rosa Fenwick

Head of LDI Implementation

Q3 2024 repo update

Fears of an economic slowdown and helpful falls in inflation rates opened the door to the first rate cuts in the US and the UK, and for a second in Europe.
Read time - 6 min
1 August 2024

Ying Yi Lovick-Tee

LDI Portfolio Manager

LDI: Elections and market reform competing for attention

Our quarterly poll of investment bank trading desks on a range of topical questions helps support our narrative around market activity and outlook.
Read time - 6 min
9 December 2022

William Davies

Global Chief Investment Officer

No more bad news should be good news in 2023

After a dismal year for markets, William Davies gives his thoughts on risks and opportunities in the market as we head into 2023. While there is plenty to be cautious about, a repeat of 2022 seems unlikely.
Read time - 6 min
14 March 2022

Solutions Enhanced: Capital Market Assumptions 2022 Making a transition

The end of 2021 saw a continuing reminder of the impact of coronavirus, inflation occurring in major economies, and the world waking up to the stark choices presented by the climate emergency. We set out the expectations for what all this could mean for investors over the next five years and in the longer run. These capital market assumptions form the base case we use when constructing strategic asset allocations for clients.
Read time - 3 min
17 January 2022

Lorenzo Garcia

Head of Investment Solutions, EMEA & APAC

Solutions in 2022: a defining time for inflation and ESG

As inflation runs hot and interest in ESG impacts rises, there is a fundamental shift in our institutional and sub-advisory clients’ needs. We expect allocations to alternative risk assets, and to assets with positive environmental impacts, to increase.
Read time - 2 min

Client Solutions

Fiduciary management / OCIO

At Colombia Threadneedle Investments, we have an extensive range of global capabilities which means we offer a greater depth and breadth in our fiduciary solutions.

Liability Driven Investment

Liability Driven Investment (LDI) is a popular and core risk management tool for pension schemes and insurance companies.

Fiduciary management / OCIO
At Colombia Threadneedle Investments, we have an extensive range of global capabilities which means we offer a greater depth and breadth in our fiduciary solutions.
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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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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.

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