2019: The year of the boutique?

Natalie Kenway
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The current industry debate seems to finally be moving on from focusing on active versus passive with investors turning their attention to what is truly active investing and where to find it?

As fund research becomes more sophisticated, investors are increasingly looking for value for money and weeding out the closet trackers - funds charging active fees but producing index-like returns. And according to a recent report by Affiliated Managers Group (AMG) boutiques are set to reap the benefits. The report, The Boutique Premium - The Boutique Advantage in Generating Alpha, has found that investing exclusively with boutiques over the past 20 years would have created 16% greater wealth for investors than choosing a larger counterpart. The report, which studied 5,000 equity ...

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