F&C's Potter: Income seekers need greater diversification

Many traditional income-producing assets are failing to deliver the goods. For those investors with the primary aim of generating yield, alternative income assets need to feature in their portfolio. One of the best ways to generate an attractive and reliable income is diversification. The reasoning is simple: the more sources of income an investor has access to, the greater the scope for generating reliable yield and the less exposed they are to disappointments in any one particular area. But while the case for diversification is not unknown to the investor community, producing an inc...