Inflows into flagship Copia Select accelerate

Three-year anniversary of product range

Copia Capital Management, the discretionary investment management platform, has just passed the three-year anniversary of its flagship 'off-the-shelf' Select range, which uses a number of ETFs to express an actively managed asset allocation view.

While the business was launched in 2013, inflows to the service are finally starting to accelerate, and now stand at around £390m. Henry Cobbe, head of Copia, attributes this to three main factors, which he described as some "tectonic shifts" across the UK asset management space. First Trust launches factor-based fixed income ETF These include the "institutionalisation of retail", with a greater focus being placed on evidence-based investing and high-quality investment processes. The second shift is in technology - in Copia's case this pertains to both the platform technology un...