Asset managers stick to DB comfort zone

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Asset managers are staying in the "comfort zone of defined benefit" and are failing to seek business opportunities in defined contribution schemes, Spence Johnson says.

The research and consulting firm said some institutional asset managers were "short sighted" and just not interested in DC because they believed it to be low margin. However, director Magnus Spe...

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