Investment summary

Sustainable Food Trust

A summary of how our investments performed in 2025.

The market value of the Foundation's investments at the end of 2025 was £1.381 billion. The portfolio’s total return of 9.4% in 2025 compared to the Foundation's long-term investment objective (RPI+4%) which was up 8.3% during the year.

Looking back over one-year, three-year, five-year and since-inception, the performance of the portfolio against our long-term investment objectives is as follows:

Annualised performance over... Actual return % Target return % (UK RPI +4%) Over/(under) performance %
1 year 9.4 8.3 1.1
3 years 5.8 8.4 (2.6)
5 years 7.3 10.9 (3.6)
10 years 8.6 8.8 (0.2)
Since inception (2000) 7.1 7.6 (0.5)

Asset allocation of our investment portfolio

The table below shows the asset allocation of our investment portfolio at the end of 2025.

Return Drivers
2025 % 2024 % Change %
Global equities 44.1 42.7 1.4
Emerging equities 3.5 3.6 (0.1)
Private investments 32.6 32.6 0.0
Hedge funds 7.3 6.5 0.8
Diversifiers
2025 % 2024 % Change %
Low volatility funds 8.6 9.9 (1.3)
Cash
2025 % 2024 % Change %
Investment cash 3.7 5.6 (1.9)
Currency hedge 0.2 (0.9) (1.1)

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