Making sense of asset diversity

Investment planning for retirement shares many intrinsic qualities associated with investment planni...

Investment planning for retirement shares many intrinsic qualities associated with investment planning. However, change is afoot - notably in the personal arena. Individuals, through the use of Sipps and Ssass, have been able to diversify holdings into asset classes previously unavailable to them. Investments such as hedge funds, commodities and property have increasingly been built into portfolios in general and portfolios concentrating on retirement planning are no different. In addition, the more traditional asset classes will continue to be used but exposure will be gained using dif...