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Peter Elston
Mar 31, 20165 min read
Multi-Asset and the Changing Nature of Asset Allocation
Financial advisers will be only too aware that the difference between a comfortable retirement and an uncomfortable one is almost too...
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Peter Elston
Mar 31, 20161 min read
What does Proper Portfolio Diversification Look Like?
It’s a tricky question, because safe haven assets such as developed market government bonds are expensive, so owning them relies on them...
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Peter Elston
Mar 31, 20165 min read
The Relevance of Multi-Asset Investing
We all know that the difference between a comfortable retirement and an uncomfortable one is almost too huge to contemplate. And yet you...
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Peter Elston
Jan 1, 20165 min read
Value versus growth – A misleading binary
The analytical framework set out by Benjamin Graham and David Dodd in 1934 was very intricate, whereas the constituents of value indices...
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Peter Elston
Sep 1, 20153 min read
Response to FT Adviser Article
From Seneca Investment Managers' public marketing material. Seneca is now part of Momentum Global Investment Management. My attention was...
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Peter Elston
Sep 1, 20155 min read
Strategic Asset Allocation
As is the case with many things in the financial world, there is no one clear definition of the term ‘strategic asset allocation.’ While...
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Peter Elston
Sep 1, 20134 min read
Learning the language: Terms and Taxonomy of Multi-Asset Funds
Just like in any industry, the world of investing has its own particular terminology and taxonomy. Nowhere is this more apparent than in...
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Peter Elston
Sep 1, 20138 min read
Multi-Asset Funds: The Great All-Rounders
In this article I take us a step further and show how to choose a multi-asset fund, explain the importance of asset allocation, and look...
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Peter Elston
Jul 1, 20134 min read
The Evolution of Multi-Asset Funds
To understand why multi-asset funds have evolved it is vital to understand two key things about traditional balanced funds: first, how...
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Peter Elston
Jul 1, 20138 min read
Make Your Move with Multi-Asset Investing
The concept of multi-asset investing has existed for many years, and many investors hold multi-asset funds in their retirement portfolio....
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Where's My Cycle?
An update on where I think we are in the business cycle with respect to growth, inflation and markets


Correlation or causation?
Data is too often presented in an unfair, unclear and misleading way


Dear John
Liontrust's John Husselbee's arguments in support of balanced funds are lame
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