Ashburton Launches Advanced Portfolio Service

by Carla Johnson, Investors Offshore.com

11 November 2004

Jersey-based investment managers Ashburton have launched a new Advanced Portfolio Service which offers investors access to a broader range of assets and the opportunity to determine the level of risk they wish to accept.

The new service enables clients to benefit from exposure to hedge funds, other asset classes and derivative strategies in addition to the traditional cash, bonds, foreign currencies and equities options, within an actively managed portfolio.

Additionally, with three different choices of risk profile, the Advanced Portfolio Service seeks to enable clients to have greater control over the amount of risk to which their investments are exposed.

“With this new product range, we are able to deliver leading edge portfolio management and construct portfolios that closely match a client’s appetite for risk, offering them lower, moderate or higher risk services. This enables them to choose an investment approach that complements their lifestyles,” commented Stephen Kearns, Product Development Director at Ashburton.

The new products are open to investors with a minimum of £100,000 and are available in sterling, US dollars and euro.

Kearns believes the Advanced Portfolio Service offers a more attractive option to investors at a time when demand for index trackers or “flavour of the month funds” is waning.

“What they are really seeking is something that Ashburton has always offered – actively managed diversified portfolios that, when stormy markets make it sensible to do so, will shelter in cash for that all-important ‘sleep at night’ factor,” concluded Mr Kearns.

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