Gosling's Grouse - Active investing for the modern cynic

You all know I'm a cynic - you don't have to have read this column for long to know that. So it was with a slightly cynical look on my face I went along to a small debate about multi-asset investing hosted by Barings.

I have always had a lot of time for Barings because in the 20 years I’ve been meeting people from the asset management side I have learned two things: they tend to have very intelligent and challenging fund managers, and the funds they come up with are not usually ‘me-too’ products. But at the heart of the debate about multi-asset investing was the fact that back in March they launched their own multi-asset fund. Not another one, I thought – surely there are too many around already and Jupiter and Thames River already do it better, don’t they? My cynicism was immediately tempered by t...