Our investment platform consists of multiple specialist teams working closely together. This enables us to provide a wide range of tailored solutions for our clients across the risk/return spectrum.
As a specialist asset manager, our scalable investment platform has been built to support flexibility. We use a broad range of asset classes to deliver absolute or relative performance solutions along the full risk/return spectrum.
Our highly experienced and specialist teams manage investments across a wide range of asset classes including fixed income, liability driven investment and other specialist investments.
Financial solutions
Our Financial Solutions Group puts us at the forefront of designing and implementing Liability Driven Investment (LDI) solutions, both on a pooled and a segregated basis.
Our role involves taking full responsibility for modelling, design and implementation as well as ongoing management of the solution. We do not rely on third parties – we are entirely independent and fully accountable for our solutions, also providing assistance in the modelling and construction of our strategies.
Our pooled funds operate on a partially-funded basis so that clients have the flexibility to combine them with return-seeking strategies to improve funding levels.
Fixed income
Insight is one of the leading fixed income managers in the UK. We have a long and successful history of managing UK government, corporate and index-linked bonds on both a pooled and segregated basis. In addition, our expertise covers European, global and emerging bond markets. We also manage several cash benchmarked fixed income pooled funds such as leveraged loans and unconstrained bonds plus funds.
Our fixed income solutions can be used to generate an income, increase portfolio diversification or help to reduce risk within a portfolio.
We have successfully operated a liquidity business for over 10 years. We offer an attractive combination of traditional cash management expertise and a broad, innovative fund range to meet clients’ needs, available to investors through a segregated portfolio or through our pooled funds.
Specialist Investments
Absolute return: We have a number of absolute return products, ranging from low-risk active liquidity management funds to higher return/higher risk cash benchmarked absolute return strategies. Insight has managed client funds on an absolute return basis since 1998. Absolute return funds aim to deliver positive returns and long-term capital growth with a targeted approach rather than returns relative to a benchmark.
Specialist Equities: Our highly-experienced specialist equities team is focused on adding value through informed, opportunistic stock selection for its market neutral, absolute return solutions and income-orientated investment strategies.
Using a team-based approach which brings together expert research skills alongside specialist active fund management and an established equity investment process
we aim to drive consistent, repeatable performance.
agriculture: Our first commodities product, the Global Farmland Fund will aim to provide investors with exposure to any growth in the agricultural sector. The Fund will aim to provide investors with this exposure through a variety of holdings. These may include stakes in exclusive vehicles incorporated to hold farmland assets, shares in listed farmland companies, direct ownership of farmland, debt covenants over farmland and stakes in existing farmland funds.
mULTI-asset strategy
Investment Strategy: The investment strategy team act as a research unit providing investment strategy analysis across a range of asset classes and macroeconomic, as well as, market timing issues.
Asset Allocation: This team determine the overall strategic and tactical asset allocation policy for Insight in addition to the allocation policy for the solutions that the team themselves manage. They ensure effective implementation across all portfolios.
Multi-asset : Extensive market access both internally and externally to investment ideas maximises the benefit we can offer investors in our multi-asset solutions. The funds are constructed to cover a broad range of asset classes, regions and strategies using varying methods of implementation including external (best of breed) funds, Insight managed funds, direct holdings and derivatives.
