SWIP revamps global equities range

Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP) has outlined the shape of its restructured equities offering.

According to SWIP's head of global equities Will Low (pictured), the revised product range will offer high alpha equity portfolios, alongside a range of ‘enhanced passive', ‘diluted' versions of the high alpha products, eliminating the ‘medium alpha' products. "We think there is an advantage in being pure to what you are trying to do when you are investing clients' money, rather than having a schizophrenic existence," said Low. The high alpha range will include global equities mandates, one with a completely global focus, as well as global ex-UK, global ex-Japan, and global ex-US mand...