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Active management

Active management edges out passive performance in Q1
Active management edges out passive performance in Q1

Passive outperforms over five years

  • Investment
  • 04 June 2020
Closet tracker scandal: Are schemes getting what they pay for?
Closet tracker scandal: Are schemes getting what they pay for?

Pension funds may be sitting on valuable claims if it can be proven that active management would have led to higher returns compared to a tracker fund, write Simon Bushell and Daniel Spendlove

  • Law and Regulation
  • 04 September 2018
Why schemes are flocking to passive funds
Why schemes are flocking to passive funds

Research finds passive funds are to increase in usage by 6% per annum at least until the end of the decade. James Phillips explores the reasons behind the increasing shift

  • Investment
  • 15 June 2018
More active managers outperformed in 2017 amid low volatility
More active managers outperformed in 2017 amid low volatility

After a disappointing 2016, last year proved to be a better year for active managers with 44% beating their benchmarks. Stephanie Baxter reports

  • Investment
  • 27 April 2018
Spotlight shines on active funds as 72% failed to outperform in 2016
Spotlight shines on active funds as 72% failed to outperform in 2016

Last year posed huge challenges for active investment as markets were driven by politics rather than economics. Stephanie Baxter looks at research showing a large fall in managers beating the benchmark

  • Investment
  • 15 May 2017
Time for change on fees
Time for change on fees

An LCP report shows current fund charging strategies do not serve schemes well. Helen Morrissey looks at the issue

  • Investment
  • 13 April 2017
Active management back on the agenda as investors face bumpy 2017

Investors will eye up active and alternative strategies next year to help them cope with market volatility arising from economic and political forces, according to research.

  • Investment
  • 13 December 2016
FCA's Bailey: Fund fee caps would not effectively drive competition
FCA's Bailey: Fund fee caps would not effectively drive competition

Proposes all-in fee on funds

  • Investment
  • 18 November 2016
Is there a winning formula to get value for money?
Is there a winning formula to get value for money?

There has long been a debate about which investment strategy, whether active or passive, delivers the best value for money. Michael Klimes looks at how trustees can find the best strategy

  • Investment
  • 18 October 2016
Godfrey: We must do more to explain merits of active management
Godfrey: We must do more to explain merits of active management

The pensions and investment industry needs to be much more explicit about the objectives of active management, according to former Investment Association (IA) head Daniel Godfrey.

  • Investment
  • 12 October 2016
How trustees can find good active fund managers
How trustees can find good active fund managers

In these challenging economic times it is essential to have skilled active fund managers but they are tricky to identify. Michael Klimes looks at how to find them.

  • Investment
  • 03 October 2016
HSBC pension CIO: Being small is not a barrier to ESG
HSBC pension CIO: Being small is not a barrier to ESG

There are no boundaries to smaller schemes taking environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into consideration in their investment decisions says Mark Thompson.

  • Defined Contribution
  • 15 September 2016
FCA warns of asset manager failings on closet trackers
FCA warns of asset manager failings on closet trackers

The UK watchdog has discovered problems with how some asset managers market their funds after finding several actively managed products that in reality closely track benchmarks.

  • Law and Regulation
  • 08 April 2016
Are regulators doing enough to tackle closet indexation?
Are regulators doing enough to tackle closet indexation?

Despite heightened awareness of index huggers, this cosy practice is still a big problem, finds PP.

  • Law and Regulation
  • 15 March 2016
Majority of active equity managers face extinction

Despite a decade of fierce debate over fees, many active equity managers in the UK have remained impervious to the global rise of passives. However, a growing bank of parlous historical data and changes in smart passive design may yet precipitate a great extinction according to Nick Samuels.

  • Investment
  • 26 February 2016
BT Pension Scheme pulls £8.4bn bond mandate from Hermes

BT Pension Scheme (BTPS) has pulled its inflation-linked bond mandate from Hermes Investment Management, cutting assets under management (AUM) at the business - which it still owns - by more than a quarter.

  • Investment
  • 08 December 2015
Three quarters of active equity managers beaten by passives

Most active funds have underperformed their passive benchmarks over the last ten years, according to S&P Dow Jones Indices.

  • Investment
  • 26 October 2015
HSBC says charge cap no bar to active management

The 0.75% charge cap on auto-enrolment default funds does not prevent investors from using active management in volatile sectors where it can add value, says HSBC Global Asset Management.

  • Defined Contribution
  • 02 September 2015
High active share managers may perform 'like lambs'

Using active share to measure a manager's ability to outperform could be detrimental for schemes, according to Hermes Investment Management.

  • Investment
  • 09 June 2015

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