A rival to the Wealth 150? AXA Wealth launches ‘select' list of 100 funds

AXA Wealth is to launch a list of around 100 favoured funds in the mould of Hargreaves Lansdown's Wealth 150, to help advisers "cut through the noise" of fund selection and focus on funds with a record of outperforming.

The researched fund range will feature selected active and passive funds from a wide range of external fund managers chosen by Architas, AXA Wealth's multi-manager arm. Due to go live on 24 September, it will include a range of hand-picked funds, chosen on merit, representing what AXA Wealth believes are some of the industry's "best kept investment secrets". At the same time AXA Wealth will offer two other approaches; access to a range of active, passive and blended risk-rated multi-manager funds from Architas, plus access to a range of discretionary fund managers, and a wider fund li...