Research has shown that the biggest factor in achieving good long-term returns is the effective management of a portfolio’s exposure to broad categories of investment (like shares on the one hand or fixed interest securities on the other). This is in contrast to the importance to long term returns of choosing to invest in any one individual share or security instead of another.
As such, a portfolio fund aims to offer an effective means of accessing actively managed, multi-faceted portfolio management, all in one place. In effect, beyond your initial decision to invest in the portfolio fund, all of the subsequent difficult choices are taken care of. Not only that but, unlike other portfolio funds, the Castlefield Thoughtful Growth Portfolio Fund combines our proprietary Thoughtful Investor ® approach with a focus on funds and other investments with a similar ‘thoughtful’ theme.