Multi-Asset

Flows into multi-asset products have been growing consistently in recent months, and multi-asset now constitutes 11% of the UK funds market.

From Japan to the US via Europe and the UK, L&G Investments' multi-managers Tim Gardner and Alan Thein give their views on the global investment landscape.

Legal & General Investments has launched a range of five risk targeted multi-asset funds with an AMC of just 0.25%, as it looks to benefit from the move by advisers to outsource fund selection.

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Standard Life Investments is preparing to roll out a number of regional variants of its £18bn Global Absolute Return Strategies (GARS) fund, as well as a simplified version of the vehicle, Investment Week can reveal.

ING Investment Management International (ING IM) has launched a new credit portfolio, the ING (L) Renta Fund First Class Yield Opportunities fund.

Dalton Strategic Partnership's Luca Vaiani has been forced to increase cash to over 30% in his multi-asset fund as most assets in the portfolio posted negative returns in June.

Aviva Investors has split its multi-asset solutions portfolio management team into retail and institutional divisions in an effort to provide focused advice to each type of client.

As investors await the 'great rotation' into equities, Aviva Investors' head of multi-asset retail funds, Peter Fitzgerald, takes a look at what to expect from portfolios if bond markets were to sell off.