Graham Bentley: Why multi-asset fund risk labels are essentially meaningless

Investment not about risk but uncertainty

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The multi-asset sector is a mess. Risk suffixes such as 'targeted', 'profiled', 'rated' and so on are so loosely applied to funds as to make them meaningless - and potentially misleading.

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