Using the Lipper Leaders scoring system to analyse the best-performing funds in the IA Mixed Investment 40-85% Shares sector.   If you are not confident of building your own fund portfolio—or, indeed, if you want a blended ‘core’ of asset classes to build onto with more tactical views—then you may well have cause to look at Mixed Investment funds. They come in three risk bands, with risk seen as increasing as the equity component increases. Those who saw the value of their bond holdings decimated as inflation spiked may wish to query this view of risk, but that’s how the