Best Practice | 18 Aug 16
Challenges mount for multi-asset managers
The BNP Paribas multi-asset team tactic, in the current febrile environment, is to tread carefully in its search for alpha and let the fallout from Brexit, modest global growth and doubts over monetary policy play out.
Fund fees fall across Europe – Morningstar
The average net expense ratios of European-domiciled funds have come down across the board since 2013, according to a study by Morningstar.
Multi Asset | 17 Aug 16
OPINION: Why investors are running out of new ideas
Call it symptomatic of the summer lull but, with so much debate centred on cost, genuine product innovation seems to have taken something of a back seat.
HK life sector faces ‘unsustainable’ growth, says report
Hong Kong’s life insurance market cannot sustain the high level of growth it has seen in recent years due to weak domestic demand and new regulations imposed by the Chinese government, a report by credit rating firm A.M. Best has found.
Retirement | 17 Aug 16
Scam warning over regulated advisers in pension lib schemes
Pension liberation scams are increasingly being endorsed by FCA-regulated financial advisers, advocacy group Pension Life has warned.