Octopus unveils UK Future Generations sustainable fund

Fund will be managed by Dominic Weller

Octopus Investments has launched the FP Octopus UK Future Generations fund, the firm's first retail fund with a sustainable mandate since Octopus group was founded in 2000.

The fund will take a multi-cap approach and aims to hold positions in 60 to 70 companies that are tackling some of the world's most urgent issues such as climate change. It will take advantage of the group's expertise in investing in smaller companies to find missed opportunities that bring value. "We have a mission to invest in the ideas, people and industries that change the world," Octopus Investments CEO, Ruth Handcock, told Investment Week. "We don't launch things just to jump on the bandwagon. We do it because we think there is a customer need and a gap in the market that we can fi...