Multi-asset

Wealth managers have been shifting assets out of fixed income and into property as the unloved sector comes back onto investors' radar.

Guy Monson, CIO of Sarasin & Partners, has outlined a number of key risks which could impact rising global equity markets as we head into 2014, amid the well-flagged move by the US central bank to wind down QE.

The managers of Standard Life Investment's giant £18bn Global Absolute Return Strategies fund have put in place four key trades ahead of an expected uptick in volatility in September, which they expect to benefit investors into 2014.

Legal & General Investments has launched a range of five risk targeted multi-asset funds with an AMC of just 0.25%, as it looks to benefit from the move by advisers to outsource fund selection.

ON MARKETS

Britain's housing market has finally "turned a corner", according to surveyors who report that rising prices and activity are no longer confined to the South East but are being seen across the whole of the UK.

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SMART MONEY

Nigel Cuming, CIO of Canaccord Genuity Wealth Management, is considering allocating to European equities and property as equity markets continue to rally.