Traditional portfolios: an unpopular asset allocation

Even those with little interest in investments and economics are likely to be familiar with the domestic details of the current Europe-wide crisis. A consumer would have to have just hatched out of an egg not to know things are not quite what they were in terms of investment opportunities. And in the face of volatility and increased potential risk, they are scared. So who should they talk to? Their advisers of course. Concerns In a poll of 178 UK-based advisers by investment house Natixis Global Asset Management, some 80% said their clients were concerned about the slowdown in globa...