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Time for active managers to prove themselves as volatility returns

Challenging times as QE era comes to an end

Tom Eckett, Investment Week senior asset management correspondent
Tom Eckett, Investment Week senior asset management correspondent
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Quantitative easing has been a challenging aspect of the market for active managers over the past decade as the flood of central bank money lifted stock prices and supressed volatility leading to underperformance, greater risk taking and huge flows into passive products.

The S&P Dow Jones Indices' SPIVA Europe Scorecard shows the impact QE has had on active manager performance. The latest report, published last June, showed only 29.1% of sterling-denominated global...

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