Passive Risk Level |
Defaqto |
Synaptic Risk |
EV | Finametrica |
Dynamic Planner |
Oxford Risk | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (1-5 scale) | (1-10 scale) | (1-5 scale 15 year) | (1-7 scale 15 year) | (1-5 scale) | (1-7 scale) | ||||
Risk report |
Report as at Q1 2025 | Report as at Q4 2024 | |||||||
Passive 1 |
2 |
2.4 |
3 |
1 |
2 |
19-41 |
3 |
2 | 2 |
Passive 2 |
3 |
2.8 |
4 |
2 |
3 |
42-50 |
4 |
2 | 3 |
Passive 3 |
4 |
3.2 |
5 |
3 |
4 |
51-61 |
5 |
3 | 4 |
| Passive 4 | 5 | 3.6 | 6 | 4 | 5 | TBD | TBD | 3 | 4 |
Passive 5* |
6 |
4.0 |
7 |
4 |
6 |
62-71 |
6 |
4 | 5 |
| Passive 6* | 7 | 4.5 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 72-100 | 7 | 4 | 5 |
Passive is a range of six risk-managed portfolios each with different levels of potential risk and reward. Invested regionally, they select from the 'Whole of Market' passive investment instruments. They use a long-term strategic asset allocation and a wide range of asset classes. The active tactical asset overlay aims to boost investment returns relative to the strategic asset allocation.
The value of any investment can go down as well as up, so your customer might not get back the amount they put in.
An introduction to the Passive Range
In this video, that you can show to your clients, Shanti Kelemen, Chief Investment Officer at M&G Wealth Investments explains more about the Passive range.
Passive is a range of six risk-managed portfolios, predominately invested in passive funds:
- The majority of the portfolio is invested in funds that hold equities and bonds from specific regions, such as a UK equity fund or UK corporate bond fund
- Mainly passive funds are used within the portfolios
- Typically, the portfolios contain circa 15 funds
- Available on a wide range of platforms
- 0.15% discretionary management fee
Passive Due diligence guide Passive client guide Service value assessment
How can you access our MPS ranges?
The Passive range can be accessed through the following platform providers:
- M&G Wealth Platform
- abrdn Wrap
- Aegon Retirement Choices (ARC)
- Aegon Platform (previously Cofunds)
- Aviva
- Fidelity Adviser Solutions
- LV
- Nucleus
- Platform One
- Parmenion
- Quilter
- Scottish Widows (formerly Embark)
- Transact
- Wealthtime (Novia)
Fact sheets
This model range has an inception date of 31/12/2014, with the exception of Passive (P-MP4, PF-MP4) which has an inception date 17/01/2025:
The factsheets are as of 31 January 2025.
Balancing the risk
*Note: Passive 5 shown here is the current Passive 4 and Passive 6 shown here is the current Passive 5. The linked risk reports are the last available quarterly reports for our current ranges. New quarterly risk rating reports for all ranges (1-6) will be available from April 2025.
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