ARC launches investment performance indices

The Private Client Indices, run by Asset Risk Consultants (ARC), are made up of real performance numbers supplied by 20 participating investment managers. They aim to give advisers of private clients a snapshot of their returns based on their clients’ attitudes to risk. Companies such as GAM, Jupiter, Merrill Lynch and Schroders, Stenham Advisors and Sarasin Chiswell have signed up to the scheme. Each company supplies the returns of its discretionary clients before ARC allocates them to one of four risk buckets. The Sterling indices are comprised of the ARC Sterling Cautious PC...