Rowan Dartington's Stephens: Don't follow passive herd treading 'statistically flawed path to mediocrity'

In light of the FCA's Asset Management Market Study, Rowan Dartington's Guy Stephens revisits the eternal debate about the roles active and passive investments can play in ensuring end-investors receive value for money.

The passive versus active question has reignited once more following the recent FCA review into charges within the asset management industry and it is of course important to ensure end-investors are receiving value for money. There is also a valid point in that, at the advising end of the recommendation process, we all naturally tend to charge less as a percentage fee, the more wealthy the individual client, as there becomes a focus on the absolute figure the client is paying. At the fund management end of the process, no such value transfer takes place with fund managers benefiting enti...