The necessary means for survival

Despite ever-changing trends, the investment company sector has flourished over the past 141 years because of one fundamental attribute - the ability to adapt to change

Markets have staged something of a recovery as we move into autumn, and so too has the pace of corporate activity in the investment company sector after a quiet start to the year. The number of investment companies announcing changes to their policies is already rivalling the whole of 2008, with boards clearly determined to ensure investment groups retain their relevance and keep apace with new opportunities. As Charles Darwin said: “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one more responsive to change.” Interestingly, in the past, policy c...