Chelsea Financial Services

In the latest in our series of interviews with some of the industry's key Investment Influencers, Investment Week talks to Darius McDermott of Chelsea Financial Services.

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Sebastian Lyon's £2.6bn Troy Trojan fund has been labelled "the biggest disappointment" in Chelsea Financial's biannual RedZone list of underperforming funds.

The volume of assets held in underperforming funds has fallen by a quarter, although the number of funds has increased, according to Chelsea Financial Services' latest RedZone list.

Last week, Neptune announced an overhaul of its research and business operations following disappointing fund performance in recent years.

Fund ratings agency FundCalibre has named five 'rising star' managers that have not yet made a big name for themselves in the industry, but are tipped to produce strong long-term investment returns.

Investors wishing to move from direct-to-consumer to adviser platforms face "punitive" exit fees, according to analysis by the lang cat.