Alliance Trust: Our argument for a 'sustainable' investment strategy

The argument for 'sustainable' investment

George Renouf, director at Alliance Trust, explains how the trust has adapted to meet investors' growing appetite for sustainable investing.

One of the biggest changes within the investment trust industry has been the phenomenal technological changes, not just in this century but ever since the first trust was founded in the UK in 1868.  Amazingly, the pace does not show any signs of letting up. Part of active managers' job is the early identification of some of these trends and deciding which are going to endure. We then have to look at how best to position the portfolio of stocks in a trust to capitalise on the resulting opportunities which may take many years to materialise. This is what we mean by investing for generat...