Square Mile's Hasler: Passive investment still too expensive

Huge disparity between charges

Tom Eckett
clock • 2 min read

Research carried out by Square Mile has indicated investors are paying up to 16 times more than they need to for passive investments.

The investment research firm found 12% of passive assets in the IA UK All Companies sector are invested in just five funds which carry an ongoing charges figure (OCF) of over 1%. Meet the Investment Influencers: Square Mile's Richard Romer-Lee In addition, the most expensive passive fund in the UK All Companies sector carries an OCF of 1.43% compared to 0.06% for the cheapest, highlighting the huge disparity between funds.  Victoria Hasler (pictured), head of research at Square Mile, said: "There still remains great disparity and given that the opportunity for passive funds manager...

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