How multi-asset is challenging the absolute return space

Japan was one of the most popular areas with UK investors in 2015, with some £1.2bn of flows into the IA Japan sector and more than £400m going into the IA Japanese Smaller Companies sector, as investors tried to hone in on those domestic companies benefitting...

Investment trust fees have come under fresh scrutiny in recent months, with a number of managers reducing costs or introducing new charging structures in a bid to stay competitive with open-ended peers.

Challenging backdrop

Growing need for low-cost ETF-based solutions

Early entry into EMs in 2015 has paid off

Eighth anniversary of collapse of Lehman Brothers

Closed-ended property trusts may not have been as badly impacted by the Brexit vote as their open-ended counterparts, which suffered £792m of redemptions in July, but the summer has still been a volatile period for the sector.

Eight years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers' triggered the global financial collapse, fund managers reveal the biggest lessons learned and those which remain on the horizon and are continuing to threaten the asset management industry.

More than 30% of investment companies have made changes to their fee structures since the implementation of the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) at the start of 2013, but sector commentators say more still needs to be done to "level the playing field"...