Architas unveils Multi-Asset Blended range ahead of RDR

Multi-manager investment boutique Architas is launching a Multi-Asset Blended range of eight funds, combining active and passive management styles.

The range is the result of a redesign of an existing manager of manager offering, which has assets of £850m, and will sit between the group’s Multi-Asset Active and Passive suites. It will be run by Architas managers Dawn Kendall and Sheldon MacDonald and will combine active selection of securities with the cost advantage to investors of exposure through passive investments. The funds offered include three single strategy vehicles as well as five risk-profiled portfolios. Asset allocation for the risk-profiled funds will be driven by the model developed by Architas in partnership wi...