SLI's Hambi: How MyFolio has coped with market volatility

How MyFolio has coped with market volatility

katrina Baugh
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Standard Life Investments' Bambos Hambi tells Katrina Lloyd about the evolution of the MyFolio suite of funds, his response to the large number of fund manager moves in 2014, and whether investors should be concerned about the impact of this year's election.

Standard Life Investments' head of fund of funds management Bambos Hambi has spearheaded the rapid growth of the group's MyFolio range of risk-based portfolios to over £5bn in assets under management since he joined in March 2011. Hambi is well-known to advisers during a long career running multi-manager offerings at asset managers including Rothschild, Insight and Gartmore. However, his role at SLI has been more geared towards creating a proposition for a post-RDR world, where advisers have a much greater focus on ensuring outsourced investment solutions match their clients' attitude ...

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