Fund managers are failing to comply with FCA’s Assessment of Value requirements
Simplify Consulting’s James Wood explains why fee transparency is still not up to scratch
Transparency
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Woodford commitment to transparency ‘making a bad situation worse’
Equity Income holdings appear to enjoy short squeeze as manager exits
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Gina Miller slams Mifid II confession from FCA boss
Andrew Bailey tells MPs no firm has faced enforcement action on fees transparency
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Gina Miller urges Treasury to probe FCA over Mifid II failings
SCM Direct boss slams regulator as the ‘industry lapdog’
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SJP unlikely to dump the Woodford gravy train
St James’s Place’s partnership with Neil Woodford is unlikely to end any time soon, despite many discretionary fund managers and platforms dropping the star fund manager on underperformance.
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Asset manager launches online portal in transparency push
Specialist asset manager Gresham House has launched an online investor portal in an effort to improve transparency for its institutional and family office clients.
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DFMs and the transparency challenge
Discretionary fund managers (DFMs) need to considerably up their game on transparency if they are to meet the ongoing trend for advisers to outsource investment decisions and the regulatory demand from Mifid II, research has found.
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Exposing the true cost of investing
The mere threat of more transparency will push asset managers to offer discounts to investors, according to one industry expert on a quest to uncover the true cost of investments and the apparent conspiracies against transparency in the market.
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Can transparency be counterproductive?
Telling clients about all the risks involved in an investment makes it appear less risky and more attractive, a study has found.
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IA appoints independent fund fee advisory board
The Investment Association (IA) announced Monday it had assembled an independent advisory board of established industry figures to create a standardised disclosure framework for investment costs.
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PA ANALYSIS: Should IFAs and fund supermarkets fear the price war?
The investment industry has seen an unusual flurry of fee cuts, transparency improvements and new launches recently but is this all for the better or a reason to worry for some?
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A little regulation never hurt anybody
Right now, the only thing facilitating trust between the financial services industry and society is regulation says Guy Sears.
