Multi-asset versus simple passive portfolios: Could this bear market be the catalyst for change?

This is before conducting a dispassionate performance review of centralised investment propositions and stand-alone multi-asset solutions that, in many cases, have been adopted during the past ten years. If not now in these testing times, then when is the right time to revisit the multi-asset versus simple passive portfolio (SPP) debate? Could the current climate enforce a reset of the market conditions that have thus far been hugely supportive of the SPP approach?  'Is multi-asset worth it?' was a question we were already debating hard in a report we concluded just prior to the re...