Investment consultant advice 'adds no value' to schemes

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Investment consultants' recommendations are not driven by past performance, add no value to investors yet significantly impact inflows, academic research on the US market finds.

Research from the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford said investment consultants advised of £25trn of institutional assets globally and £13trn specifically in the US. The study: Picking ...

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