Vanguard rakes in record flows amid coronavirus bloodbath for UK funds industry
Equity trackers buoy passive giants as investors pull £9bn from UK-domiciled investments
Equity trackers buoy passive giants as investors pull £9bn from UK-domiciled investments
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Ravi Azad is among a trio of hires for the ETF business
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$5trn funds giant touts savings for investors as it drops fees on 36 products
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Only physically-replicated products will be eligible
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Still on track to become first UK asset manager with £1trn AUM
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A passive portfolio of 50% bonds and 50% equities faces negative annualised returns, according to a report by Pictet Asset Management.
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Legal & General Investment Management has become the latest fund manager to launch a passive fund tracking companies with diverse boards.
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High yield ETFs have a reputation for poor tracking difference, but 7IM senior portfolio manager Peter Sleep argues there are still ways for passive investors to access the asset class.
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The asset management industry is split on the market implications if passives continue to rake in inflows, while investors lose faith in active management.
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As cumulative flows into emerging market passive funds surpass active alternatives investors should seek opportunities further down the market-cap scale, Aviva Investors head of emerging markets and Asia Pacific Will Ballard argues.
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Passive investors pay scant regard to the fundamentals of individual securities and free-ride on the work of active investors with implications for financial stability, price discovery and index correlation, according to a paper from the Bank of International Settlements.
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Coutts is offering access to five risk-graded multi-asset passive funds via a new online platform, Coutts Invest.
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