New Capital's Afzal: "The trend towards multi-asset investing has accelerated"

The rise of multi-asset solutions in recent years has been well documented and for good reason: years of easy monetary policy have resulted in high asset prices despite the fact that global corporate earnings have gone roughly sideways for ten years. Further, regulatory developments, along with the changes to pension freedoms and new hybrid products across equity, fixed income, and alternatives, have been pivotal in moving the focus for institutional fund management to multi-asset. Speaking to Investment Week, Moz Afzal, CIO and Senior Portfolio Manager at New Capital, says a multi-asset...