PA Portfolio: What is the most you would consider holding in cash?

  'The alternatives are just too unattractive' David Coombs, head of multi-asset investments, Rathbones We would not tactically allocate to cash because that smacks of market-timing and, quite frankly, we do not believe in that. There is so much luck involved in doing that to effect. However, an important point to note is that, over the last 12 months, we have had to use cash as an asset class. In a world of negative real yields and incredibly little value left in fixed income markets, the asset class is no longer able to fulfil the role of being the ‘safer' part of a portfolio...