Trustees spend more time on tea making than investment choices

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Schemes are increasingly delegating investment decisions to a separate committee or fiduciary manager, according to research from Russell Investments.

However, the survey also found trustees retained responsibility for the bulk of decisions but in schemes of less than £100m spent just 7.5 hours a year on average discussing investments. The fir...

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