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One of the challenges faced by investment managers lately has been the relative attractiveness of money market funds, given the current macro environment.
This week David Thorpe and Joseph Wilkins are joined by Peter Dalglish, Parmenion's chief investment officer, to discuss the pros and cons of these funds.
They also discuss how he is allocating through a year full of elections and political risk, and they discuss how his fixed income allocations have shifted.
The Asset Allocator Podcast is a weekly series aimed at discretionary fund managers, fund selectors and wealth managers, providing insight into the issues that drive investment decisions.
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One of the long-running trends in the world of portfolio management has been the gradual fall in average allocations to UK equities.
In this week's edition of the podcast, which is sponsored by Artemis, Joseph Wilkins and David Thorpe are joined by Henry Cobbe, head of research at Elston Consulting, to discuss the outlook for UK equities. They also discuss the dominance US equities have over global equity funds and what alternatives there are.
They also discuss the challenges of building portfolios for retirement in light of the FCA's recent review.
The Asset Allocator Podcast is a weekly series aimed at discretionary fund managers, fund selectors and wealth managers, providing insight into the issues that drive investment decisions.
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The pros and cons of paying an active manager to hunt down outperformance are often hotly debated, and this week we join in.
In the latest edition of the Asset Allocator Podcast, Dave Baxter, Joseph Wilkins and David Thorpe debate some recent comments by Sparrows Capital's chief investment officer that hunting down alpha is, ultimately, futile.
They also discuss the legacy of Neil Woodford on fund selection, the large US exposures in allocators' favourite global equity funds and they weigh up the pros and cons of a Chrysalis recovery play.
The Asset Allocator Podcast is a weekly series aimed at discretionary fund managers, fund selectors and wealth managers, providing insight into the issues that drive investment decisions.
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Bonds have been a very eventful place to be over the past 12 months or so and on this week's podcast, which is supported by Artemis, we have a chat with David Ennett, manager of Artemis High Income and Artemis Strategic Bond, about high yield bonds.
He has a chat with David Thorpe, contributing editor on Asset Allocator, about why they are particularly attractive at the moment, how the make up of the high yield market has changed in recent years and the impact of looming monetary policy changes on high yield bonds.
The Asset Allocator Podcast is a weekly series aimed at discretionary fund managers, fund selectors and wealth managers, providing insight into the issues that drive investment decisions.
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One of the latest entrants to the portfolio management market in the UK has been Soderberg & Partners, the Swedish wealth manager which has already bought up several firms. This week Joseph Wilkins and David Thorpe talk to the head of Soderberg & Partners Asset Management, Fredrik Borjesson, about his new portfolio proposition, home bias, Nordic equities and the next generation of portfolios.
The Asset Allocator Podcast is a weekly series aimed at discretionary fund managers, fund selectors and wealth managers, providing insight into the issues that drive investment decisions.
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This week we catch up with Ben Seager-Scott, the newly-installed chief investment officer at Mazars. In this week's edition of the podcast, which is supported by Artemis, he has a chat with Joseph Wilkins and David Thorpe about how he's been reacting to shifting central bank rhetoric, why he's not worried about inflation proving sticky, what he's making of the equity rally and why he's sceptical about the growth of the active ETF market.
The Asset Allocator Podcast is a weekly series aimed at discretionary fund managers, fund selectors and wealth managers, providing insight into the issues that drive investment decisions.
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