Have fund managers become too short term?

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Short-termism can be seen across many sectors of the financial world, but are fund managers becoming too short term in their investment outlook, and how can the industry fight back against this trend?

With information so readily available, more and more investors are focusing on short-term moves in valuations of equities or other assets, making decisions based on the latest set of results. Of course, this trend also impacts fund managers, who are often judged on their own short-term numbers. So how do they respond to the increasing pressure to produce benchmark-beating results across all time periods? Below, industry experts reveal how they are coping with the move by end consumers to focus on ever more short-term time horizons. Jeremy Whitley head of UK and European equiti...

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