Cash and bonds are causing retiree income to go backwards in real terms according to one fund manager who has warned that ‘lazy assets’ will cost retirees.

Investors should look at trends driven by millennials as a guide to where investment market structural growth might be found in the future, a fund manager has said.

The value of holding cash in certain circumstances should not be underestimated, a global fund manager has said.

The new year is unlikely to produce the high returns Australian investors have come to expect over the past year, an investment manager has said.

Strategies aimed at maximising returns by timing the market can be extremely costly if executed poorly.