Multi-asset interview: Miton's David Jane and Anthony Rayner

Up for the fight

Julian Marr
clock • 8 min read

Miton multi-asset managers David Jane and Anthony Rayner talk to Julian Marr about pragmatic investing, looking in the right places for income and, above all, picking your battles

Like it or not, many income-seeking investors find themselves engaged in a game of ‘chicken'. Admittedly they have been for a while now - pundits started calling the ‘top' of the three-decades-plus bull market at least five years ago - but the uncomfortable truth is that, somewhere out there on the road ahead, something large and portfolio-limiting is heading in their direction. David Jane and Anthony Rayner, co-managers of the Miton multi-asset fund range, including the £251m Cautious Monthly Income portfolio, are not the sort of people to calls market highs and lows but, for them, thre...

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