How multi-asset is coping in the current market

Charlotte Moore looks at how multi-asset managers are dealing with falls in bonds and equities

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Defined benefit (DB) schemes have been caught between a rock and hard place. Finance directors balked at the volatility of equity markets but a wholesale switch into fixed income was not an option: growth assets were needed to plug the widening pension funding gap.

The solution favoured by many pension funds is to allocate a significant proportion of their portfolio to multi-asset strategies. The investment philosophy is appealing: by diversifying across a nu...

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