Falling out of love: The end of schemes' crush on equities

Schemes’ affair with equities is over, says Jonathan Stapleton

Jonathan Stapleton
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Since the turn of the century, UK schemes have cut average equity allocations from 80% to 40% and fixed income has become the dominant asset class in portfolios.

And, it seems, these allocations could fall further. An Aon Hewitt survey of 220 UK schemes - with combined assets of £330bn - found over a third (41%) were planning on cutting back UK equities, wh...

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