Retail Investors Trends in UK - Diversifying Investments

Retail investors embracing diversity? Are the retail investors embracing more diversity than ever before

? The analysis of retail investor trends done by IMA, UK for the year 2009 reveals some interesting facts. Investors in UK are diversifying their portfolio more than ever before to include asset classes like bonds, properties and commodities rather than just equities alone(Fig-1). Even within the equities asset, investors are diversifying to include equities from different geographical locations (Fig-2). It's seen that the proportion of equity investments for Asia has been increasing while that for UK and Europe has been reducing. Investors are now more willing to invest outside of UK and Europe. In a period of ten years the investments for Asia has increased by whopping three folds. In line with the trend, the fund management companies are coming up with new breed of multi-asset, multi-location portfolio investments. For instance HSBC, which brands itself as worlds local bank valuing diversity, has come up with a series of World selection portfolio with investments spread across 15 asset classes in 11 different countries. The company is also offering choices in the investment styles. Based on the risk appetite, the investors can choose to invest from any one of Cautious, Balanced or Dynamic portfolios. The fund management style for these investments is also different and is diversified as well. Instead of traditional single fund manager managing the portfolio, the multi-asset portfolio is managed by a team of investment professionals who are located in different countries. The World selection portfolio fund of HSBC is managed by a multi-manager team with 40 investment professionals based in 11 different countries. Why are the investors investing in multi-asset portfolios? And Would the investor's trend towards diversification continue? To know more please refer to the link http://probebusiness.blogspot.com/2010/01/retail-investors-embracing-diversity.html

Retail Investors Trends in UK - Diversifying Investments

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