Our charity investing approach

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Guiding you on your journey

Our dedicated charity investment team works in long-term partnership with charities, supporting trustees at every stage of their investment journey. We work closely with charities to help structure, review, and maintain an effective investment policy aligned with your charity’s objectives, governance requirements, and risk tolerance.


Negative screening, stewardship and engagement

Many charities wish to reflect their values within their investments. We support this through a combination of negative screening, stewardship and engagement, tailored to each charity’s investment policy and governance requirements.

Negative screening allows charities to exclude sectors or activities that conflict with their charitable objectives and helps manage reputational risk.

Alongside this, our portfolios benefit from WTW's sustainable investing insights, climate research, and active stewardship to support our investment decisions. We draw on the expertise of EOS at Federated Hermes, accessed via WTW, who conduct engagement with companies on issues such as governance, climate change, and long-term sustainability issues, in line with recognised stewardship frameworks and the UK Stewardship Code.

We help charities reflect their values through an integrated responsible investment approach, combining tailored exclusions with active stewardship and engagement.

For further details on this approach please visit our Responsible investment page.

Invest with care

We begin by agreeing a clear investment policy tailored to the charity’s objectives. From there, we build and manage a portfolio designed to support income needs, long-term capital growth, or a combination of both.

As a UK-based charity investment manager, we apply a disciplined, global investment approach, drawing on in-house expertise across asset allocation, investment selection, and risk management. Our focus on high-quality investments and the power of compound returns helps safeguard and grow charity assets while ensuring portfolios remain aligned with agreed values.

Investment philosophy

Our investment philosophy is grounded in the power of compound returns and a disciplined focus on quality. As long-term investors, we seek out high-quality businesses that can generate sustainable profits regardless of the economic environment, helping to safeguard and grow your charity’s capital and income over time.

We have a strong investment culture, underpinned by a clearly defined philosophy and disciplined investment process. When constructing portfolios, we draw on extensive in-house expertise across asset allocation, investment selection, and risk management.

Our approach is global rather than UK-centric, allowing us to identify opportunities across international markets while maintaining diversification and appropriate risk control. Throughout, we ensure portfolios remain aligned with each charity’s investment policy, objectives, and values.

What next?

Meet our Charity services team

Our dedicated portfolio managers are committed to driving growth while strengthening trustee knowledge.

Download our brochure

We have created this brochure to help you understand how we work with charities. The brochure explains the framework and resources we use to build and manage charitable portfolios, as well as the journey you can expect to take with us.

Download our Fee schedule

We are committed to transparent, straightforward pricing. All fees are clearly set out, with no hidden charges, so trustees can fully understand the total cost of managing their charity’s assets. Please note: these Fees are based on a charity client investing over £1 million in our Bespoke solution (for comparison purposes our fee schedule includes an illustration that starts at £500,000).

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