Active Investing
Tilney targets advisers with ‘smart beta’ range
UK wealth manager Tilney for Intermediaries is planning to launch a new range of ‘risk graded, low cost multi-asset funds’ in the first quarter of 2017.
Macro Views | 21 Nov 16
It is time for active managers to leave benchmarks behind
Benchmarks are a vital part of the asset management sector. Funds are measured against them, bonuses worked out in relation to them and entire sectors of the industry predicated upon them. But, if recent trends are extrapolated outwards, the days of the benchmark in its current form should be numbered.
Investment | 18 Nov 16
FCA demands ‘all-in’ charge in active management crackdown
The FCA has criticised the “weak price competition” among asset managers, attacking actively managed funds for failing to outperform their benchmark once fees have been taken into account.
UK equities and the long goodbye
As the market reacts to the UK’s shock decision to leave the EU, active managers are underperforming their passive peers when it comes to UK equities.
Number of European active funds beating benchmarks rose sharply in 2015 – Lyxor
Lyxor Asset Management has found that close to half of European domiciled active funds outperformed their benchmarks last year, a big increase on 2014.