MSCI describes thematic investing as a top-down investment approach that relies on research to explore macroeconomic, geopolitical and technological trends. 

These trends encompass long-term, structural shifts arising from new business models, disruptive technologies and changing consumer tastes and behaviors – megatrends that have the potential to change whole industries and shape the way we will live, work, travel and treat disease in the future.

Thematic investing is intentionally future-focused around specific emerging trends that are expected to evolve. So in the current economic environment, how have thematic funds fared and how do they fit into a portfolio?

In this latest podcast, FTAdviser deputy features editor Ima Jackson-Obot is joined by Kenneth Lamont, a senior manager research analyst at Morningstar, and David Docherty, investment director, thematics at Schroders.

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