{"id":4241,"date":"2006-04-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"armstrong-debunks-low-risk-fof-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2006\/armstrong-debunks-low-risk-fof-myth.html","title":{"rendered":"Armstrong debunks low-risk FoF myth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  LONDON (Citywire) &#8211; Research by Insight Investments&#8217; multi-manager Patrick Armstrong challenges the commonly held perception that the inbuilt diversification from fund of funds (FoFs) offers  investors good returns at a lower risk than funds that hold stock directly.<\/p>\n<p>  Armstrong, who has been compiling the analysis on a monthly basis since he joined Insight in November 2003, measures risk against returns in the three key FoFs sectors: cautious managed, balanced  managed and active managed.<\/p>\n<p>  Armstrong and Dr Ana Cukic-Monro run several funds in these sectors including the Insight Investment UK (Insight Investment UK Portfolio Acc) and UK Equity Income Portfolios (Insight Investment UK  Equity Income Portfolio).<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=  \"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/url?sa=T&amp;ct=us\/3-0&amp;fd=R&amp;url=http:\/\/today.reuters.co.uk\/Funds\/FundsArticle.aspx%3Ftype%3DfundsNews%26storyID%3D2006-04-07T113522Z_01_JON741631_RTRUKOC_0_CITYWIRE-FOF.xml&amp;cid=0&amp;ei=jVw2RKPIJ6TepgLctvyIDg\">  <strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (Citywire) &#8211; Research by Insight Investments&#8217; multi-manager Patrick Armstrong challenges the commonly held perception that the inbuilt diversification from fund of funds (FoFs) offers investors good returns at a lower risk than funds that hold stock directly. Armstrong, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}