Following Investment Week's inaugural Trailblazer Awards in June, we speak to a different winner each week regarding some of their greatest achievements and the challenges they have faced over their career.
This week, we chat to Jakob Payne, an investment manager at Forrester-Hyde. What has been your most successful asset allocation decision so far? At Forrester-Hyde, we adopt strategic and tactical asset allocation, and have a number of examples of successful short-term asset allocation calls, such as allocating to alternatives before the 2018 Q4 pullback, which saw our JPM Global Macro Opportunities fund protect capital in a falling market, returning -0.34% vs the MSCI World's -7.44%. However, the most successful, as measured by process and performance, was favouring US over EU equit...
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