Intermediaries need to look beyond equities

With markets still wavering, the Isa season off to a slow start, advisers, investors, fund managers ...

With markets still wavering, the Isa season off to a slow start, advisers, investors, fund managers and providers alike are all still anxiously awaiting signs that the market direction will head consistently upwards. Capital preservation is all that intermediaries appear to be occupying themselves with these days and there is no telling what a third year of falling markets would do to their clients' already shaken confidence. On top of this, the annual publication of the Barclays Capital has refuted the general belief that in the long term, equities provide the greater return. The study...