UK Equity Income managers are increasingly reliant on barbell-style investing as stocks fail to prov...
UK Equity Income managers are increasingly reliant on barbell-style investing as stocks fail to provide the necessary growth or yield. The barbell approach, the practice of holding growth stocks to provide capital gains and high-yielding stocks to provide income, is intended to be flexible enough to be adapted to all market conditions, according to some fund managers. The approach has been seen as introducing a new element of risk in the UK Income sector, with the appearance of high growth technology stocks in income portfolios. Bambos Hambi, fund manager at Friends Ivory & Sime, said t...
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