When most people think of industrial logistics buildings, factors like energy efficiency, technology and carbon innovation don’t usually spring to mind.

Powerful retailing disruptors are reshaping expectations about shopping by digitising retail markets across the globe. Here, senior analysts from across Franklin Templeton compare how three retailing giants tailor technology to fit local customs, lifestyles and payment abilities.

Why should investors take note of advances in the field of data science? And why now?

The evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) has rarely been far from the headlines in recent years. Our research analysts examine the growing influence of AI across sectors and explain how they evaluate investment potential for AI capabilities.

We maintain high expectations for growth around the theme of technological innovation, which is where wealth creation can occur in any economic cycle. Our experience in active management helps us identify companies displaying innovation that leads to sustainable competitive advantages and favourable growth regardless of market conditions.

Growth stocks have strongly rewarded investors over the last decade, but are signs now emerging that the market’s enthusiasm has gone too far? Fidelity Global Special Situations Fund Manager Jeremy Podger assesses the recent growing pains and whether non-tech areas can pick up the slack.

The technology sector had a strong year in 2017 and investors have begun to question whether the stellar performance means stocks are now overvalued. Here we assess whether now is the time to embrace a wider opportunity set across the tech space and how opportunities within this theme are being captured in the Fidelity Global Special Situations Fund.

After performance weakness in the immediate aftermath of the Brexit referendum, UK property delivered a strong return in 2017. In the first of two guest posts looking at the property environment in different parts of the world, Tony Brown, CIO of M&G Real Estate, discusses where this leaves us in terms of the key themes in UK property in the period ahead, both from a cyclical and a longer term structural perspective.