Asset Allocator

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Every week the Asset Allocator Podcast discusses the big issues in UK fund selection, the major investment trends of the moment, and exclusive data on how wealth managers are positioning their portfolios. They'll be joined by guests from across the profession to unpick some of these trends.


Asset Allocator is a news and analysis service tailored to the needs of UK wealth managers, fund selectors and discretionary fund managers. Our proprietary fund and asset allocation data, compiled using information provided by the UK’s leading DFMs, provide unique insights into the issues that drive investment decisions. To sign up to the free newsletter, click here.


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Episode Date
Achieving diversification in an age of uncertainty
May 21, 2026
Why income portfolios remain relevant in 2026
May 14, 2026
Why active fund management still has a role to play in portfolios
May 07, 2026
Diversification is not a free lunch for investors
Apr 30, 2026
Inflation protection a major priority for Pictet’s multi-asset boss
Apr 23, 2026
Quilter WealthSelect boss: What 20 years in the MPS market has taught me
Apr 16, 2026
RBC Brewin Dolphin: We have moved away from the 60/40 portfolio
Apr 09, 2026
Why Isio have no government bonds in their MPS
Apr 02, 2026
Why there are no safe havens left
Mar 26, 2026
How Fidelity think about risk in their new MPS
Mar 19, 2026
Govt bonds ‘still the best safe haven and store of capital’
Mar 12, 2026
What 7IM means by rules-based investing
Mar 05, 2026
Volatility means active management now increasingly attractive in US
Feb 26, 2026
Why One Four Nine Group has cut its equity exposure by 5%
Feb 24, 2026
Is active management making a comeback?
Feb 12, 2026
How Canaccord Wealth are allocating to profit from dollar weakness
Feb 05, 2026
Assets to own to protect against a Trump-induced market shock
Jan 29, 2026
How to diversify US equity exposure in the age of Trump
Jan 21, 2026
The biggest question impacting portfolios in 2026
Jan 08, 2026
Resilience needed to attract clients to sustainable funds
Dec 11, 2025
Ability to pass on tariff costs becoming limited for US companies
Dec 04, 2025
Why JM Finn expects muted bond market response to Budget
Nov 25, 2025
US market is diversification target for EBI
Nov 20, 2025
UK equity funds Evelyn Partners are sticking with
Nov 13, 2025
Diversification in an age of uncertainty
Nov 12, 2025
Why Tatton are underweight US equities and overweight Japan
Oct 30, 2025
Why reducing Japanese equity exposure now is sensible portfolio management
Oct 23, 2025
Resurgence of strategic bond funds "not surprising"
Oct 09, 2025
How the Schroders multi-asset team is reacting to dollar weakness
Oct 02, 2025
Why earnings growth justifies US tech stock outperformance
Sep 25, 2025
Which is the last cheap equity market in the world?
Sep 17, 2025
Inside Quilter's passive alternatives strategy
Sep 10, 2025
Why boutique fund managers represent a compelling opportunity
Sep 04, 2025
Why this allocator is 30% underweight to the US
Jul 31, 2025
What is the best way to buy an index fund?
Jul 24, 2025
Is active management reaching a turning point?
Jul 17, 2025
Why 7IM sold out of healthcare
Jul 10, 2025
Can anything stop the S&P 500 from going up?
Jul 03, 2025
Can a portfolio ride out every bump?
Jun 26, 2025
Is American exceptionalism over?
Jun 19, 2025
What role does factor investing play?
Jun 12, 2025
How is the economic cycle affecting portfolios?
Jun 05, 2025
Should UK gilts do the twist?
May 29, 2025
What's the case for increasing exposure to the US?
May 22, 2025
The struggles of measuring MPS performance
May 15, 2025
Do risk variable portfolios work?
May 08, 2025
Can you diversify away from tariff volatility?
May 01, 2025
Market turmoil reveals the perils of owning US tracker funds
Apr 24, 2025
How Donald Trump liberated the markets from going up
Apr 17, 2025
What’s the role for high yield bonds?
Apr 10, 2025
Can gold's growth be sustained?
Apr 03, 2025
Has Europe's time come?
Mar 27, 2025
Is now the time to worry about the US economy?
Mar 20, 2025
What to make of the US stock slide
Mar 13, 2025
Mitigating 2024's rise in fund manager moves
Mar 06, 2025
Are we at an inflection point for political risk?
Feb 27, 2025
Are equal-weight indices all they’re cracked up to be?
Feb 20, 2025
Is volatility back for good?
Feb 13, 2025
Benchmarking for success
Feb 06, 2025
What to make of this week's AI rout?
Jan 30, 2025
Why Gam has such a large exposure to US equities
Jan 23, 2025
Why is RSMR's Stewart Smith such a big fan of Japan?
Jan 16, 2025
Which US equity funds outperformed in 2024?
Jan 09, 2025
What does the future have in store for MPS?
Dec 19, 2024
What's the outlook for 2025?
Dec 12, 2024
Is the US fiscal deficit about to balloon - and does it even matter?
Dec 05, 2024
Budget changes to Aim markets was 'not woeful'
Nov 28, 2024
Is there still value in US equities?
Nov 21, 2024
What could a Trump presidency mean for portfolios?
Nov 14, 2024
What's the outlook for UK equities?
Nov 07, 2024
How Premier Miton's new MPS head runs his portfolios
Oct 31, 2024
What to make of the China stimulus
Oct 24, 2024
Will cost disclosure rule changes spur interest in investment trusts?
Oct 17, 2024
How will China's stimulus affect the rest of the world?
Oct 10, 2024
How sustainable are sustainable portfolios?
Oct 03, 2024
What really drives returns?
Sep 26, 2024
An emerging opportunity
Sep 19, 2024
Going in cycles
Sep 12, 2024
All things being equal
Sep 05, 2024
What's the risk?
Aug 15, 2024
What does this week's volatility mean for portfolios?
Aug 08, 2024
The future's bright, the future's managed
Aug 01, 2024
Can you beat the house?
Jul 25, 2024
Reasons to be fearful
Jul 18, 2024
Factor tilts, the AI boom and SDR rules
Jul 11, 2024
'The role of bonds and equities in portfolios has switched'
Jul 04, 2024
Don't leave me this way
Jun 27, 2024
Staying on theme with global equities
Jun 20, 2024
On the money market
Jun 13, 2024
The challenge of building portfolios for retirement
Jun 06, 2024
Good alpha is so hard to find
May 30, 2024
How the high yield bond market is changing
May 23, 2024
How a Swedish wealth manager tailored its MPS to UK investors
May 16, 2024
Is inflation's stickiness something to worry about?
May 09, 2024
Has a new spring sprung for equities?
May 02, 2024
Will UK equities continue to be this cheap?
Apr 25, 2024
Priced for perfection?
Apr 18, 2024
Bill Dinning sees an opportunity in real assets
Apr 11, 2024
How much of a bargain is the UK?
Apr 04, 2024
Fund management's got talent
Mar 28, 2024
Why emerging markets are no longer the factories of the world
Mar 21, 2024
"Therein lies the risk": investing in a manager-led boutique
Mar 14, 2024
An emerging dilemma
Mar 07, 2024
Unpicking the China versus India conundrum
Feb 29, 2024
What is going on with the US economy?
Feb 22, 2024
Taking the risk on US equities
Feb 15, 2024
What's the investment case for US equities?
Feb 08, 2024
Why is Fundsmith Equity still so popular?
Feb 01, 2024
The challenges facing fixed income
Jan 25, 2024
Where do allocators stand on the value vs growth debate?
Jan 18, 2024
New year brings 'major reset' for bond investing
Jan 11, 2024
Investing home for Christmas
Dec 14, 2023
Rise of the machines?
Nov 30, 2023
Cautiously does it
Nov 16, 2023
China in your hands
Nov 02, 2023
East is for income
Oct 19, 2023
Is the 60/40 portfolio back?
Oct 05, 2023
Positive thinking
Sep 21, 2023
Emerging opportunities
Sep 07, 2023
Money market moves
Aug 03, 2023
Balancing act
Jul 20, 2023
Simon Evan-Cook on his return to multi-asset
Jul 06, 2023
Go east
Jun 22, 2023
Hit parade: Asset Allocator 100 Club 2023
Jun 08, 2023
Keep the home fires burning
May 25, 2023
The Irrefutable Proof
May 11, 2023
Income conundrums
Apr 27, 2023
State of the inflation
Apr 13, 2023
Show me the money
Mar 30, 2023
Sustaining sustainable funds
Mar 16, 2023
Point of no absolute return
Mar 02, 2023
Incoming in from the cold
Feb 16, 2023
Shifting sands
Feb 02, 2023
Home comforts
Jan 19, 2023
New year, same conundrums
Jan 05, 2023
New year resolutions
Dec 08, 2022
Quality Street
Nov 24, 2022
Currency conversion
Nov 10, 2022
Hard landing
Oct 27, 2022
Hot property
Oct 13, 2022
Gilt trip
Sep 29, 2022
'There are no panaceas'
Sep 15, 2022
It cuts both ways
Sep 01, 2022
How green was my portfolio
Aug 04, 2022
That's not your style
Jul 21, 2022
Underweight of the world
Jul 07, 2022
The bonds that tie
Jun 23, 2022
Return to growth
Jun 09, 2022
No way home
May 26, 2022
Keeping it real
May 12, 2022
It's not that easy being green
Apr 28, 2022
Gone to look for America
Apr 14, 2022
Not all bonds are created equal
Mar 31, 2022
Cash in the attic
Mar 17, 2022
Risky business
Mar 03, 2022
The concentration conundrum
Feb 17, 2022
Going in and out of style
Feb 03, 2022
Challenging the bond bears
Jan 19, 2022
Capacity, liquidity, and due diligence
Nov 11, 2021
What role are alternatives playing in portfolios in 2021?
Oct 07, 2021
How the ESG era is changing fund buy-lists
Sep 16, 2021
DFMs' model portfolios uncovered
Jun 24, 2021
How big a threat is inflation to portfolios?
Jun 10, 2021
Was November 2020 a turning point for fund selectors?
May 27, 2021