Vanguard launches fresh attack in price war
Vanguard has launched a new offensive against competitors in the ongoing fund price war with the introduction of its first actively-managed bond fund in the UK.
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UK advisers relying on model portfolios
More than three quarters of advisers in the UK use model portfolios according to new research which shines a light on the growing shift towards structured investment offerings.
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End the fixed fee ‘gravy train’, says Morningstar’s Ptak
The time has come to offer investors a fairer deal and drop the fixed fees set by funds and replace them with performance-based charging, Morningstar’s head of global manager research Jeffrey Ptak has said.
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Strong EM passive fund inflows pressure active fees
As passive products increase their market share among emerging market funds, active fund managers must outperform to justify their fees, argues a report by Cerulli Associates.
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Analysis: What has inspired the active fund renaissance?
It was a bad time to be an active manager in 2016, the year of Brexit and Trump, with underperformance plaguing funds as passives tracked the market higher and higher.
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ANALYSIS: Time for active funds to adapt or die
The active funds industry must shrink, cut prices, better-align itself with investors and differentiate if it wants to compete against a passive onslaught, according to a report by Morningstar.
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Majority of active funds not ‘closet trackers’, says report
A clear majority of UK active equity funds are not closet trackers and should not be tarred with that brush by the regulator, new analysis of the UK fund market suggests.
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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.
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Over half of active funds in the UK close within 10 years
Fewer than half of all UK equity funds manage to survive longer than 10 years, according to the latest research from ratings agency S&P.
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Global unconstrained fund managers best, says UBS WM’s Lecher
Stefan Lecher, the new head of client portfolio management for Asia-Pacific at UBS Wealth Management in Hong Kong, said unconstrained managers have the best chance to excel.
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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.
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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.