PA360 North: 'We're all guilty of pushing the same strategies to advisers'

Decumulation panel debate

Tom Ellis
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DFMs and asset managers are all guilty of pushing the same investment strategies to advisers when more nuanced solutions could be more beneficial, Copia's Henry Cobbe told PA360 North delegates on Wednesday.

The conference's decumulation panel debate - made up of Thesis AM head of marketing Lawrence Cook, Copia Capital Management head Henry Cobbe and CTC Software chairman Nigel Chambers - had a lively back-and-forth about the appropriate investment strategies for decumulation, though the former two did agree DFMs and asset managers may be pushing the wrong approaches. Cobbe - from a discretionary fund manager (DFM) himself - argued most asset managers and DFMs were selling the same products to advisers for accumulation. "We're all guilty of it," he said. "Five risk profiles, the same basic r...

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