How to build an income for your portfolio

Chris Ainscough tips three robust and high-yielding investments to tuck away in your portfolio now.

Each week, a professional investor tells us where he'd put his money. This week: Chris Ainscough, FP Matterley Regular High Income Fund.

Our high-income fund aims to preserve capital and generate a sustainable income for investors. Income-seekers tend to be risk-averse, so when I'm building the portfolio, safety is my priority. This can be done via the usual route of diversification (the more holdings in a portfolio, the lower the exposure to problems with individual holdings "idiosyncratic risk").

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Chris Ainscough, FP Matterley Regular High Income Fund.