Schroders' Spedding: It is down to asset managers to provide more information for trust investors after MiFID II

More education needed

Jayna Rana
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John Spedding, head of investment trusts at Schroder Investment Management, has said asset management houses must do more to ensure investors are kept well informed about investment trusts once MiFID II is implemented and research on the sector will need to be paid for separately.

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