Eight industry leaders reveal their plans on how to improve the industry for investors, from using new technology to assessing companies' ESG ratings. Compiled by Jayna Rana.
Tom Milson, executive directo, GWM IM Benchmarking I think the investment management industry should improve benchmarking. There are too many benchmarks being used and it is very complicated for investors to truly understand how their performance compares and whether they are getting value for money. Some firms create their own benchmarks and some will deduct all costs, whereas others deduct just the costs of the underlying investments but not the management costs and it is all too confusing. Ideally, there would be one set of recognised and consistently used benchmarks used acro...
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