
Schroder Recovery

Schroder Recovery aims to deliver attractive capital growth by investing in companies that have suffered a severe business or price setback, but where the managers believe long-term prospects are good. Recovery investors need a long-term horizon, but patience in this fund has proved rewarding.
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Fund Manager
Fund Manager

Andrew Lyddon, Fund manager Andrew Lyddon joined Schroders in 2005 as a graduate and has primarily worked within the UK equities team. From 2006 to 2010, he was a research analyst focusing on UK construction, business services, and telecom sectors. In mid-2010, he joined the UK value team, working alongside Kevin Murphy and Nick Kirrage.
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Quote from the Fund Manager
Recovery investing requires patience, it doesn’t work every day.
Andrew Lyddon
Fund manager
Investment process
The starting point of Schroder Recovery’s investment process is a very basic valuation screen to highlight potential candidates; the team then has a particular focus on stocks that have underperformed the FTSE All Share index over three to five years. The managers then assess the extent to which profit recovery is within the company's own control, or dependent upon external conditions. They look extensively at company balance sheets to ensure companies have enough capital to see them through short and medium-term challenges. Unlike most fund managers, this team is steadfast about not meeting company management teams. The managers believe the full story of a company can be found in the financial statements and not what they hear from the directors.
Risk
The nature of 'recovery' investing is that some companies will disappoint, and some will go bust. Sometimes the catalyst for change takes time, and often the stocks will first get even cheaper. Schroder Recovery's performance is likely to differ significantly from the index.
ESG
ESG - Integrated
ESG factors are integrated throughout the investment process for the whole of the Schroders fund range. The process begins with the ‘SustainEx’ tool which has been developed in-house by a 25-strong central ESG team.
SustainEx quantifies the positive and negative impacts companies have on society. It has won a number of awards and continues to be upgraded all the time. Most approaches measure impact relative to a benchmark, whereas SustainEx calculates a quantifiable overall impact. There are over 45 positive and negative externalities which have been drawn from over 400 academic studies and are applied to 9,000 global companies. The tool helps fund managers to identify previously unaccounted for ESG risks and helps them to build these risks into their valuation framework.
Each individual strategy has its own ESG specialist on the team. In addition to SustainEx, analysts also use the Context tool which allows them to add their own input. It is also used in the valuation process, with higher discount rates applied to weak ESG companies. Some companies’ ESG will be so weak that they are considered uninvestable. ESG also helps shape portfolio construction: those stocks with a higher ESG risk may have a reduced weight in the portfolio, or if the risk is high enough, no position at all.