As we have seen throughout the morning’s series on diversification, there are many in the asset management world who think it has never been more difficult to build a diversified cautious portfolio than today. 
Across the morning’s articles, we seen how cautious fund managers are currently approaching their own portfolio construction and have looked a number of potential holdings for a diversified portfolio.
But not all investors will want to build their own portfolio using a collection of single-strategy funds owing to the time and effort this approach demands.
As Chelsea Financial Services managing director Darius McDermott said: “It is very difficult for private investors to build a fully diversified portfolio. There are many assets in which you can invest, including equities, fixed income, alternatives, cash, property and infrastructure. In recent years more and more investors have gone for a managed service. With these funds the managers are doing two main jobs – picking the best funds and asset allocation.”
With this in mind, we have asked the experts which multi-asset and multi-manager funds they think are good candidate for investors seeking a diversified and cautious core fund or just a one-stop-shop.
