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 James Yardley, senior research analyst at Chelsea Financial Services. What has been your most successful asset allocation decision so far? In our view, the traditional 60% equity 40% bonds-style of investing is dead. Quantitative easing has distorted markets and we find it very hard to find any value in most fixed income at the current yields. We are concerned about the possibility of a disorderly sell-off in bond and equity markets at the same time. We saw a taste of this last year when the rise in US Treasury yields triggered the initial sell-off. As a res...
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