Our approach
The AIMS Target Return Fund is a multi-strategy portfolio that targets an annual return of cash plus five per cent per annum above the central bank base rate over rolling three-year periods (gross of fees), with less than half the volatility of global equities.
It seeks to deliver returns less correlated to other asset classes, acting as a diversifier within investors’ broader portfolios through its unconstrained absolute approach.
Potential benefits
Multi-strategy investing draws on economic analysis, investment insight and robust portfolio construction.
Key risks
For further information on the risks and risk profiles of our funds, please refer to the relevant KIID and Prospectus.
Multi-strategy team

Peter Fitzgerald
Chief Investment Officer, Multi-asset & Macro

Ian Pizer
Head of Multi-Strategy Funds and Portfolio Manager, AIMS Target Return
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Multi-asset & multi-strategy views
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Multi-asset allocation views: Perfect storm or storm in a teacup?
23 May 2023
Recent concerns over the banking sector seem to have eased, but have raised uncertainties around the availability of credit and the path of interest rates. Sunil Krishnan assesses the consequences for multi-asset investors.
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Getting a taste for fiscal intervention, but at what cost?
19 May 2023
Fiscal intervention is, again, a vital part of the government policy toolkit, supporting plans to boost domestic industries and fight climate change. But while well-intended, such measures will add to already elevated debt levels, with significant implications for investors, as Michael Grady explains.
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Forget what you think you know: Staying humble in a world of rising risk
16 May 2023
In a world where potential pitfalls loom around every corner, Peter Fitzgerald and Ian Pizer explain why investors need to look beyond what financial models are telling them to keep portfolios resilient to the challenges ahead.
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What does the data say? Five charts on financial fragilities
14 Apr 2023
We take a visual approach to explain what’s happening with banks.
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Boom! Shake the gloom? Does China’s reopening mark a new beginning?
29 Mar 2023
China looks set for a rapid economic rebound in the first quarter after finally abandoning its zero-COVID policy. But will the recovery prove temporary as longer-term dynamics reassert themselves?
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Integrating ESG in multi-strategy portfolios
23 Mar 2023
Multi-strategy portfolios have come a long way in embedding ESG into the investment process, but there are gaps to fill, as Jennie Byun explains.
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Access all areas: Multi-asset investing in real assets
20 Mar 2023
Zoe Austin makes the case for a multi-asset investment approach in real assets.
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Multi-asset allocation views: Investing in the age of the polycrisis
9 Mar 2023
The interlinked nature of multiple global events – known as the polycrisis – can create challenges and opportunities for investors. Sunil Krishnan explores the potential winners, losers and areas of change.
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What does the data say? Three charts multi-asset investors should know about
6 Mar 2023
We take a visual approach to explain what’s happening with bonds, equities and oil.
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Why inflation is likely to prove sticky
17 Feb 2023
Central banks will find it far harder to eradicate inflation than markets anticipate and will be in no hurry to ease off on rate hikes, argues Ian Pizer.
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Recessions, returns and relative value: A Q&A with Peter Fitzgerald and Ian Pizer
6 Jan 2023
The managers of the AIMS Target Return strategy explain why investors should be prepared for more turbulence in 2023.
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Multi-asset investing: The five big questions for 2023
16 Dec 2022
Sunil Krishnan looks back at 2022, and outlines what multi-asset investors should look out for in 2023.
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Multi-asset allocation views: How politics are influencing markets
22 Nov 2022
Political risk has returned with a vengeance in 2022. Sunil Krishnan discusses what this means for multi-asset portfolios.
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What does the data say? Politics and markets
11 Nov 2022
In this month’s instalment of our visual series on topical themes, we look at how political events have shaped markets in 2022 and further back in time.
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When the numbers don’t add up: UK learns painful lesson not to buck the market
8 Nov 2022
Governments around the world would do well to heed the lessons of recent chaotic events in Britain that concluded with Liz Truss becoming the country’s shortest-lived prime minister.
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Multi-asset allocation views: What high inflation means for portfolios
12 Oct 2022
Inflation has direct and indirect consequences for financial markets. Sunil Krishnan reflects on how multi-asset investors can mitigate them and find areas of resilience.