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Alex Farlow: Multi-asset education, education, education

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If investors continue to think that multi-asset funds are complicated, then this means we are not doing enough to help them understand."
If investors continue to think that multi-asset funds are complicated, then this means we are not doing enough to help them understand."
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Clients have nothing to fear about multi-asset funds, writes Alex Farlow, but it is imperative they understand what they are dealing with - and it is up to us as professionals to help them

Investors have often expressed a view that they fail to fully understand multi-asset funds. We would put this down to a number of factors, which include the extreme divergence in performance one can achieve,...

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