Wealth managers reveal their strategies for boosting income

Investors' desperate search for income continues as rumours abound of the possibility of negative interest rates and bond yields remain at record low levels.

Here, wealth managers reveal how they are working harder to boost income for clients and are looking outside of traditional asset classes.     Sheldon Macdonald, senior investment  manager, Architas The hunt for income has been fervid lately and shows no signs of abating. With inflation stubborn at 2.7%, it is not just savers looking to better the 2% average high street savings account rate: investors too are seeing income as an essential component of overall returns. But where to find income is becoming increasingly problematic. Gilts, the traditional darling of income hunters, cur...