Investment Options

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).

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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 Options

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