Fund buyers are calling on iShares to review the pricing of its range of UK exchange-traded funds (ETFs), especially the mainstream vehicles that are charging substantially more than their peers.
Low-cost active equity funds, launched to much fanfare two years ago, are failing to attract investor interest as they pass their second anniversaries.
As the world adjusts to the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) funds have been impacted alongside other products, but will prices rise (and become more complicated) as a result of the RDR, or will the regulator's goal to lower fund costs be achieved?
Trade body's recommendations to explain charges more fully are unlikely to be adopted across the board.
A number of misunderstandings have put advisers off the investment trust space, but excluding them from clients' portfolios is a big mistake, says Paul Taylor, managing director at McCarthy Taylor.