Analysis: Charities can use the slowdown to their advantage, say the experts

By David Ainsworth, Third Sector, 14 May 2008

Charity finance experts have predicted that the sector's investments will weather the recent slowdown in the financial markets - and that market conditions could even provide charities with buying opportunities.

Charles Nall, corporate services director of the Children's Society and chair of the Charity Finance Directors' Group, said charities, including his own, had seen the benefits of good diversification policies. "The Children's Society saw a small positive return," he said. "Our portfolio did exactly what we wanted it to: it...

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