Sesame seminars to tackle investment volatility

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Sesame is to run a series of investment technical seminars to help advisers cope with the recent volatility in world stock markets.

Sesame says the seminars, to be run throughout November, will provide advisers with guidance and technical knowledge to help them provide clients with appropriate investment strategies. Key issues to be tackled include how asset classes interact and relate to risk tolerance, investor psychology, using trend to predict future market movement, asset allocation and portfolio construction. Paul Dawson, head of Sesame Learning, says: “We have had several years of buoyant stock markets and strong sales, but recent volatility in world markets has the potential to dent consumer confidence and a...

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