How unconstrained investing can help your clients

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Standard Life Investments' head of UK wholesale, Jacquie Kerr, explains how deviating from the benchmark indices can pay off.

Recent years have seen increased appetite for investment portfolios that target enhanced levels of index outperformance. These deploy a wide range of investment strategies and portfolio construction techniques, under a wide array of different labels, including focus funds, high alpha funds and unconstrained offerings. The common objective is to give investment managers the flexibility to deploy their alpha generation skills to the fullest effect. A key feature of many approaches is that investment managers are granted a flexible, less benchmark-driven approach to stock selection. Benc...

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