Diversifying to counter market shocks - Trevor Greetham

Third of five interviews in new series with RLAM’s head of multi-asset

Diversifying into assets that perform better during negative market shocks can help shift the odds in investors' favour should the unexpected actually happen, says RLAM head of multi-asset Trevor Greetham in this video interview.

Talking to Professional Adviser editor Julian Marr in the above video, Greetham outlines how RLAM's Global Multi-Asset Portfolio (GMAP) fund range navigated what proved to be a turbulent first year after its launch in March 2016. "When people say 'may you live in interesting times', we certainly had an interesting first year," he says, before noting the two big shocks of 2016 - Brexit and Donald Trump's election in the US -turned out to be positive for markets because they led to looser policy. "When Brexit happened, the Bank of England moved towards cutting instead of raising interes...