The Liontrust Global Equity Fund, managed by James Dowey and Storm Uru, has been renamed Liontrust Global Innovation in a bid to better reflect the investment ethos of the strategy.
The £287.4m fund seeks to invest in companies said to be benefiting from "disruptive change" which permeates across every sector of the economy. To be included in the fund, companies must have disruptive innovation, Liontrust stated. Both Dowey and Uru have jointly developed this approach to the global equity investment process, which Liontrust said is based on the belief that innovation is the "most important" driver of stock returns. Flows into sustainable funds drive Liontrust AUM to £35.7bn "The past decade has witnessed a doubling in the rate of innovation - there are curre...
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