Why costs and fees matter

How fees based on AUM are distorting and misleading

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Con Keating takes a look at how costs and fees should be measured.

The debate over the disclosure of costs and fees for investment portfolios has been long, obscure and occasionally bad tempered. It seems likely that the current interest of the FCA and other offic...

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