19 Jul 2017 Value for money: platforms next in the spotlight (paywall)
Can platforms help drive down fund costs on behalf of investors? A question that is agitating the minds of regulators in the UK....
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17 Jul 2017 Forcing competition on platforms could drive up prices
Forcing asset managers to offer the same price to all platforms could drive up costs to consumers....
17 Jul 2017 Warning FCA platform study could ‘drive up prices’ for end investors
Forcing asset managers to offer the same price to all platforms could drive up costs to consumers....
17 Jul 2017 Forcing competition on platforms ‘could drive up prices’
Forcing asset managers to offer the same price to all platforms could drive up costs to consumers....
14 Jul 2017 UK Platform Awards 2017 – Platform of the Year finalists named
7IM, A J Bell, Aegon, Aviva, Nucleus and Standard Life have been revealed as the six finalists....
13 Jul 2017 Bank funds named as potential closet trackers (paywall)
Large UK equity funds from Halifax and Scottish Widows have been singled out for charging investors high fees....
11 Jul 2017 Third of UK equity funds ‘overpriced’ closet trackers (Paywall)
Around a third of UK equity funds are marketed as active strategies despite the fact that they closely hug their benchmarks...
10 Jul 2017 Fidelity, Schroders, Old Mutual: Gatekeepers’ favourite firms
Fidelity and Schroders are among the most popular firms on gatekeepers' buylists, according to Fundscape....
10 Jul 2017 Fidelity tops list of UK fund-pickers’ favourites
Fund-pickers in charge of putting the investment industry's wares in front of the UK general public....
10 Jul 2017 Graham Bentley questions independence of certain ‘best buy’ lists
The gbi2 managing director was commenting on a report co-authored by Fundscape and gbi2....
10 Jul 2017 Majority of active funds not ‘closet trackers’ states report
A clear majority of UK active equity funds are not closet trackers and should not be tarred with that brush by the regulator....
10 Jul 2017 ‘Significant’ difference in quality of fund best buy lists
Fund buy lists are helping investors to avoid overpriced 'closet tracker' products but the quality varies significantly...
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