Mike Barrett: Is any multi-asset option 'the' investment solution?

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Post-MIFID, every model portfolio provider, DFM and multi-asset manager will be telling advisers they have 'the' investment solution but, says Mike Barrett, one of those groups may have a couple of edges

Fear not - this is not another article on which World Cup manager would make the best multi-asset fund or whether Harry Kane would prefer passive or active exposure to emerging markets.  These days most advisers we speak with thankfully put more thought, intelligence and process behind their investment propositions, leaving World Cup analogies serving no purpose whatsoever… beyond, of course, providing a tortured introduction to an investment article. This process for constructing an investment proposition is not only structured and intelligent, it is something that increasingly most ...

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