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Gatekeepers in 2017 v 2016

25 May 2018 What drove Gatekeepers in 2017?

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We compared Gatekeepers in 2017 to 2016 to look for any emerging trends or changing preferences. But it's safe to say that 2017 can be characterised as a year when Gatekeepers continued to stick with big-name funds, despite their non-appearance as top performers. Meanwhile lesser-known funds outperformed, but were unable to get on fund selectors' radars or if they had been noticed, get fund selectors to up their exposure. Fund groups The fund groups with the most selections in 2017 were still the behemoths of the UK industry. Overall, BlackRock was the most popular, leapfrogging Fidelity and Schroders to become the group

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Funds of Funds

02 Nov 2015 Who’s hot or not in the Funds of Funds world?

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The trend for outsourcing investment has grown sharply in recent years, and with the advent of pension freedom it is only going to get bigger. Model portfolios and robo-advice are currently the talk of the town, but in the background funds of funds have been hoovering up assets.

According to Fundscape’s  latest report Deconstructing the UK Funds of Funds World, FOF assets may only represent 12% of the total fund industry AUM (June 2015), but they punched well above their weight with 52% of industry sales in H1 2015. So in short, it pays to be part of this expanding market.

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