John Husslebee, chief executive, North Investment Partners, investigates the growing importance of asset allocation and its contribution to successful portfolio management
The UK retail investment market is changing rapidly, as an ever increasing array of asset classes and investment products become accessible to the smaller investor. Multi-asset investing is a growing discipline that will place greater demands on portfolio managers and professional investors but it needs to be embraced if the increasingly sophisticated performance demands of investors are to be met in the future. Asset allocation is an increasingly important contributor to overall risk-adjusted investment portfolio returns. It is probably more important now than it has ever been before....
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