Asset Class 05

Sector Strategies

Targeted, theme-based exposure to the industries and trends you believe in — from biotech to emerging technology.

Instrument
Thematic baskets
Typical horizon
Medium to long-term
Style
Conviction / thematic

How strategies work

A strategy bundles a defined investment theme — such as growth in the biotechnology sector — into a single, coherent position. Instead of researching and buying individual companies one by one, you gain exposure to a curated basket built around that theme, so a single decision expresses a broader conviction about where the world is heading.

1

Pick a theme

Choose a strategy aligned with a trend you want exposure to — a sector, technology, or structural shift.

2

Invest in the basket

Your capital is allocated across the strategy’s underlying holdings, giving diversified exposure within the theme.

3

Ride the trend

You hold the strategy as the theme plays out, adjusting your position as your conviction evolves.

Themes that cross borders

Strategies are organised around ideas rather than geographies, so a single theme naturally draws on the best companies for that trend wherever they are listed.

Global by theme

A biotech or technology strategy holds leaders from wherever the strongest players in that field trade.

Innovation hubs

Heavy representation of US and developed-market names in cutting-edge sectors.

Emerging leaders

Room for high-growth companies from developing economies riding the same structural trends.

Structural shifts

Themes built around long-run changes — demographics, energy, digitisation — that span regions.

What it takes to start

Varies
By strategy

Each strategy sets its own minimum, displayed on its page. Because a strategy is a diversified basket, it lets you back a theme with a single, efficient allocation rather than funding many individual positions.

This makes conviction investing accessible even when your capital wouldn’t stretch to building the whole basket yourself.

Theme-driven markets

The backdrop for thematic investing

The current market is unusually theme-driven. A single structural force — the build-out of artificial intelligence — has been responsible for a disproportionate share of global earnings growth and market performance, spreading from technology into utilities, healthcare, logistics, and beyond. That environment is precisely where thematic strategies are designed to shine, letting investors take a considered position on a trend rather than trying to pick individual winners.

The flip side is concentration risk: when returns cluster around one theme, the cost of that theme cooling is amplified. Thematic investing rewards conviction, but it calls for a clear-eyed view of both the upside of a trend and the risk that leadership rotates. Holding a strategy as one part of a diversified portfolio, rather than the whole of it, is the usual discipline.

Concentrated, theme-based strategies can be more volatile than broad-market exposure. A trend performing well today may reverse. Nothing here is a forecast of returns or investment advice.

Invest in what’s next.

Back the sectors and trends you believe in, in one position.

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