Insights

Our reflections on a two-week research trip to Japan that took in more than thirty company meetings across three cities.

Europe might have had a chequered economic history since the Global Financial Crisis, but for the Walter Scott Research team, it’s not all bad news and it remains home for many great companies that excel on the global stage.

With sustainability the focus of increasingly heated and polarised discourse, we thought it timely to revisit our approach to the subject. Not with a view to taking sides in this debate, but rather to reiterate the fundamentals of our approach and articulate its philosophical underpinnings. In other words, how we do sustainability and why.

Investment managers Tom Miedema and Alistair Ceurvorst travelled to Belgium to attend one of the technology sector’s major conferences. They came back reassured by some of the trends that are continuing to create great growth opportunities for many leading technology companies.

Now in its 13th edition, the ambition behind our Journal remains unchanged. Through exploring some of the themes at the forefront of the Research team’s agenda we hope to share the thinking of a range of experts alongside our own views and in doing so show how we address these subjects in the context of our long-term investment approach.

Paying staff has always been an administrative challenge. Unfortunately for many employers, it’s a problem that is only getting worse as changing employee expectations and ever more red tape increase the burden still further. Little wonder that companies are increasingly looking externally for a solution to their payroll headache. Paying staff is complicated. Calculating pay …