Diversified portfolios are way forward

By Jim Stride, managing director at AXA Investment Managers The past year has been challenging i...

By Jim Stride, managing director at AXA Investment Managers The past year has been challenging in investment markets. These have not only been a function of share price behaviour but also of wider accounting and governance issues emerging from the US corporate scandals. In the UK, several investment publications dominated the financial services industry, such as the Pickering Review, Sandler Report, Higgs Review and Consultation Paper 121. Geopolitical concerns about a possible war in Iraq and the terror attacks in Bali and Mombasa have, however, overshadowed all of these mark...