Ravenscroft is pleased to announce the launch of its Global Solutions Fund, its first fund launch in eight years.

The fund is a multi-manager, global, thematic equities product with a focus on providing long-term returns through investing in funds which are exposed to long-term structural trends and offer access to companies that are working towards solving some of the most pressing global challenges, in particular:

• Environmental solutions (decarbonisation, pollution avoidance)
• Basic needs (water & waste management, nutrition, education, healthcare access/improvement)
• Energy transition (clean energy, energy efficiency)
• Emerging equality (closing inequality gap, improving lives in emerging markets)
• Resource scarcity (smart materials, agriculture, getting more out of less)

The fund will be run by Ravenscroft’s multi-manager team, led by Samantha Dovey, who bring significant thematic investment experience. It will initially launch on 31 March 2022 as an offshore fund available in the Channel Islands.

Samantha Dovey, Group Head of Fund Research at Ravenscroft, said:

‘Ravenscroft has long believed that investing in funds which are exposed to long-term structural trends can result in faster growth than the broader market. Over the past few years, we have seen some fantastic new investment opportunities in funds that meet our rigorous fund analysis. What started as a handful of environmental solution names, developed into a basket of funds investing in areas like oncology, nutrition and decarbonisation and it became clear that there were more than enough of these highly thematic funds to sit in a standalone product.

‘This is not an ESG, green or sustainable impact fund as these terms mean so many different things to different people and we didn’t want to limit the investment opportunities. We are investing in solutions and some of these may include areas that could be excluded through a traditional ESG lens.’

The Global Solutions Fund sits alongside the other Ravenscroft funds – Income, Balanced, Growth and Global Blue Chip; these four existing funds are available to both offshore and onshore clients through Ravenscroft’s offices in Guernsey, Jersey, the Isle of Man and the UK.

For more information about the Global Solution fund, please click here.

Fund analyst Shannon Lancaster at the launch presentation of the Ravenscroft Global Solutions Fund.