Investment
Investment | 28 Jun 17
FCA backs all-in fee in scathing report on UK funds industry
The Financial Conduct Authority has confirmed plans to crackdown on excessive fund charges in a damning final report on the UK’s £7trn asset management industry, and outlined plans to investigate the investment platform industry.
Macro Views | 27 Jun 17
Five groups most at risk in the FCA asset management report
With the final report from the FCA’s market study of asset management due on Wednesday morning, speculation is rife about what the long-awaited recommendations could say.
We look at the five groups who could face the repercussions.
Macro Views | 26 Jun 17
ANALYSIS: Brexit one year on
It has now been a year since the UK electorate made, as a British fund manager put it recently, “a huge strategic error of the like the country hasn’t experienced in maybe a century” by voting for Brexit.
Macro Views | 26 Jun 17
Why the Bank of England is the ‘real’ public enemy number one
The Bank of England is the real reason behind the UK’s rising inequality and soaring asset prices but has been “skulking away invisibly” in the background, according to Tim Price of Price Value Partners.
Investment | 26 Jun 17
Political uncertainty boosts case for active over passive funds
Passive funds have performed strongly in recent years, benefitting from relatively low volatility and more accommodative monetary policy in most developed economies, says David Macdonald, VAM Funds’sales and marketing director.