Skandia is poised to shake up the managed portfolio market with its suite of cut-price model funds, as the first look at WealthSelect reveals half the restricted range is priced at less than 60bps.
Richard Romer-Lee's recently launched consultancy firm Square Mile Investment Consulting & Research is set to launch a ratings service and a recommended fund list.
Richard Romer-Lee's Square Mile consultancy has poached another research analyst from Morningstar OBSR as head of risk based solutions research.
A concentration of flows among an increasingly small pool of funds is prompting buyers to turn away from the biggest players due to fears over performance, liquidity and communication.
Frontier markets delivered a positive return in January, as local ‘sticky money' stayed put in the face of heavy outflows from EMs.