Charity executives managing £3.7billion say technology now gives active investment management the edge. Interviews with senior charity executives conducted for wealth managers Rathbones found investment portfolios shifting towards equities and alternatives. Other reasons charities gave for the shift to active investments were that these tend to perform better in volatile markets (55%), greater innovation in the active management sector (49%), active strategies becoming more transparent (48%) and fees for active investments becoming more competitive (41%). Just over a third (35%) of charity executives surveyed said between 10-25% of their portfolios are in passive strategies. In the next two years, 88% of charities expect their allocations to UK equities to rise by between 5-20%.