Defaqto’s independent updated guide designed to help financial advisers improve their understanding of multi-manager fund management has just been produced and  is downloadable free of charge from: http://tinyurl.com/2f623bCalled “Blending Talents¹: A guide to multi-manager investing in the UK”, Issue 6,  Defaqto’s latest guide explains how the different types of multi-manager funds can work for financial advisers and their clients. It is also designed to deepen appreciation of the various ways in which multi-manager funds are managed and the report provides a template which if followed by multi-manager fund managers will ensure that advisers will be able to place the appropriate funds in front of their clients.

The guide is issued at a time when the level of fund manager moves in this section of the industry has been unprecedented and it contains the full listing of fund manager moves in 2007.

The guide enumerates the advantages to the adviser of outsourcing  investment decisions to multi-manager investment specialists including how this can help improve client relationships and increased business levels.

Fraser Donaldson, Principal Consultant - Investments at Defaqto and co-author of Blending Talents, says: “With upwards of 300 multi-manager OIECs and unit trusts in the UK, advisers can be overwhelmed by the amount of information they would otherwise need to research without a guide like ours to help them. By following the route map to successful investment selection that the guide provides, advisers will be well placed to meet their customers’ requirements appropriately and with confidence.”

The guide is available as a free download from the Defaqto website at: http://tinyurl.com/2f623b

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Notes to Editors:

The guide “Blending Talents” is sponsored by AXA Framlington, Cazenove Capital Management, Credit Suisse Asset Management, Fidelity International, MLC and Schroders.

For further information contact:

Defaqto Limited 

Fraser Donaldson, Chris Johnston or Luci Mylward

01844 295 454