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17 April 2025 < 1 min

Security: A new theme shaping our investment approach

Following a recent review of thematic framework, we have decided to introduce a new theme to the mix, Security. This sits alongside our existing five themes – Ageing, Automation, Climate Change, Digitalisation, and Evolving Consumption – all of which remain as valid today as when they were first identified.

Here we explain why we have done this, and what it means for our portfolios.

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14 January 2025 4 mins

Why thematic?

At Sarasin & Partners we have long pioneered a global, thematic approach to investing. This thematic philosophy is encapsulated in our view that markets underappreciate the impact of structural trends. Here, we explain how that approach works. Structural trends are long-term forces that shape behaviours, societies, industries, and...

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11 October 2024 6 mins

Semiconductors: investing in an AI future

Semiconductors, driven by AI’s need for power-hungry GPUs, have seen significant growth, but challenges remain. Sarasin invests in key stocks, while monitoring concerns of a price ‘bubble’. Semiconductors may not be the first things that come to mind when we think of our tech devices, but they are...

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11 July 2024 6 mins

AI: The new industrial revolution

A year ago, we wrote that the generative AI hype was rooted in genuine breakthroughs, forecasting significant long-term impacts and identifying hardware players as clear beneficiaries. Since then, AI has continued to dominate both news headlines and stock market performance, with the gap between perceived AI winners and...

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25 April 2024 7 mins

Equity outlook: Have markets underestimated big tech?

When a small clutch of stocks warrants a name, it implies shared characteristics. In the case of the Magnificent 7[1], they are all tech stocks that produced outstanding returns in 2023. But this is by no means the whole story. In fact, only two of the Magnificent 7...

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11 April 2024 7 mins

Private markets: is the journey worth it?

They are illiquid, hard to access, difficult to research and not especially transparent. So what accounts for the 16x growth of private assets over the past 30 years to become an £8 trillion juggernaut[1]? Not long after the dawn of my investment career – let’s say the 1990s...

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