Disruption Week 2024: New horizons of growth

As the US embarks on a multi-trillion-dollar effort to renew its infrastructure, discover which growth companies are playing a vital role. Investment manager Michael Taylor reveals some of the exceptional firms involved in preventing flooding, repairing roads, upgrading power grids and keeping datacentres cool.

Find out how we can give you rare access to private companies that are shaking up the status quo and creating new markets. Investment manager Alexander Nicolier reveals how our Private Companies Team gains the trust of trailblazing entrepreneurs and shares some of its most recent investments, including a firm that’s invented a new way to experience live sports and a company creating the next generation of AI computing.

We’re living longer but having fewer children – find out about the growth companies seizing on the opportunities this challenge creates. Investment manager Abbie-Louise Gilbert gives her pick of firms improving our physical and mental fitness, tackling chronic diseases in new ways and pioneering the use of robots and other automation to address gaps in the workforce.

Learn about the factors lining up in emerging markets’ favour and the increasing number of world-class stocks in the asset class. From South Korean semiconductors to a Brazilian app-based bank and China’s leading hotpot restaurant chain, Ben Durrant reveals some of the companies with great growth potential that he and his colleagues have backed.