Charles Younes: The equity funds we’re backing for volatile markets
FE Investments adds five equity funds in its latest rebalance, with Slater Growth and Baillie Gifford European making the cut
The vast differences in the roll out of the Covid-19 pandemics around the world have led to markedly different effects on the markets. While in the UK, the success of the vaccine rollout has led to some cautious optimism, in areas such as India, further lockdowns are being enacted as the prospect of a third wave is causing increased volatility.
If 2020 taught us one thing, it was that predicting the markets is ultimately a fruitless endeavour. At FE Investments, we instead prefer to look at managing risk and a key component of this is to use fund manager alpha from different investment strategies to diversify our portfolios, using our ‘Approved List’ of recommended funds.