Multi-Asset Review: M&G's 30 years of a 'secret sauce'

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While multi-asset has burgeoned in recent years its popularity is not a new phenomenon. Cherry Reynard talks to M&G's multi-asset team founder, Dave Fishwick, about how he has guided the team's philosophy over the 30 years since its inception...

While its popularity may have soared in recent years, multi-asset investing has a lengthier pedigree than it may first appear. And one team has been doing it longer than most. M&G's multi-asset team started life more than 30 years ago and still it remains true to its founding philosophy.  In its early years, the multi-asset team was formed to run the Prudential with-profits fund. The fund has been one of the most successful of its kind (albeit in an uncompetitive field). M&G decided to build on its strength, launching a slew of retail funds using the team's ‘secret sauce'.  The archit...

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