Riccardo Curcio

LGIM is a risk-averse, long-term manager which leverages the research capabilities of the L&G group and follows both active and passive investment approaches to manage a range of investment products including equity index and global fixed-income strategies. They refer to their passive strategies as 'intelligent indexing’. The firm invests globally across major asset classes and actively exercises voting rights. They manage a range of specialist hedge funds invested in UK small-caps, Japanese equity and global high-yield credit.

FIA UK is an active manager which aims to achieve long-term capital appreciation through a bottom-up approach. They focus on individual companies that seek to identify fundamental value in stocks. The firm uses a wide variety of investment strategies in managing client assets. FIA-UK conducts fundamental research, focusing on business franchise, trading environment, valuation, and management. Top-down considerations complement their approach, with attention paid to political, environmental and social issues likely to impact on a company's potential.