Multi-manager

Patrick Armstrong explains what investment advisers should look for when selecting a multi-manager provider.

Insight's multi-manager range is now available to an extra 1.7 million people as sister company Clerical Medical have opened access to seven of its funds to bond and pension clients.

Patrick Armstrong, multi-manager at Insight Investments , details - in the first of two articles - some of the questions advisers should ask of managers when seeking selecting investment options for your clients.

A service targeted specifically at IFAs is being launched by Reuters Lipper to provide data and analysis on over 14,000 funds and investment news.

The FSA will next month reveal further details of the "basic advice" regime which is now being implemented from April 2005.

Multimanager providers and financial intermediaries face the tricky task of explaining to customers multiplying middlemen (and women) fund managers can produce superior overall returns.

James Hughes has been appointed portfolio manager for AXA Multimanager, responsible for researching and selecting managers of UK Equities, UK Fixed Income and European Equities funds.

Asset classes - asset classes are the broad definitions used to identify different types of investments.

Multimanager products began to gain momentum three years ago as a new concept of diversification in retail consumer investment.

Norwich Union's unfettered fund of funds (Fof) range exposes investors to double taxation on dividends.