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14 June 2019

Are you up to date with the FCA’s PS19/4?

The FCA published Policy Statement PS19/4 in February with further remedies for UK Authorised Fund Managers (AFMs) as a follow-up to its Asset Management Market Study (AMMS).

18 April 2019

Greater clarity on assessing a PRIIP’s Recommended Holding Period

The Joint Committee of the three European regulators responsible for PRIIPs has just updated its Q&As and includes a detailed answer on how to arrive at the Recommended Holding Period (RHP) of a PRIIP.

11 March 2019

Good and bad in MiFID II cost disclosure, says FCA review

Having selected 50 assorted MiFID II investment firms – D2C platforms, robo-advisers, DFMs and fund managers – the FCA looked at their understanding of the rules, where they might be falling short, how well costs and charges information is shared between groups and whether cost disclosure has improved the transparency of client communications.

07 March 2019

FE fundinfo Alpha Manager Rating: more than just an accolade

The FE Alpha Managers make up the top 10 per cent of UK retail-facing managers based on their track record going back to the year 2000, with extra weighting for managers with the longest track records to highlight the benefits of experience.

07 March 2019

FCA issues Feedback Statement on its PRIIPs Call for Input

Despite a lack of ability to do much at a local level about PRIIPs, the FCA issued a Call for Input (CfI) last year to ask for industry views on issues such as the scope of the PRIIPs Regulation and the calculation and presentation of risks, returns and costs on a KID.

31 January 2019

Keeping Up with the Digital Revolution: Your Reputation is on the Line!

It is becoming more and more evident that the wealth and asset management industry is going through a digital transformation. Changing technology is making space for a new breed of digital competitors with innovative solutions aiming to disrupt the industry.

23 January 2019

ESMA consulting on sustainability risks in product governance and suitability

While much attention since MiFID II came into force a year ago has been on cost disclosure, the European regulator ESMA has published two consultation papers (CPs) on integrating sustainability risks and factors in MiFID II, tightening up on suitability of advice, and in UCITS and AIFMD, incorporating them in product governance.

14 January 2019

FCA’s Temporary Permissions Regime opens for business

Following its CP18/29 at the end of last year, the FCA has now opened its doors to firms and funds from Europe to register their intention to apply for full UK authorisation following Brexit.

21 December 2018

Fundsmith Equity most researched fund in 2018

As 2018 draws to a close, we delve into FE’s leading investment research and analysis tool, FE Analytics, to take a look at the funds that have attracted the most adviser interest this year.

20 December 2018

The funds that have piqued adviser interest in 2018

2018 is drawing to a close so now is time to take a look back at the year gone by to see what facts and figures have emerged. In order for asset managers to better connect with advisers and understand their investment decisions, it’s crucial that we look at how advisers are behaving and why that may be.

07 December 2018

Q&A with FE fundinfo Head of Data Rob Botha

We asked Rob Botha, Head of Data at FE fundinfo, how we helped the European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) to boost transparency.

06 December 2018

ESMA Securities and Markets Stakeholder Group (SMSG) responds to PRIIPs consultation paper

ESMA’s SMSG – its own panel of advisers, made up of industry participants, consumers and academics – has published its advice to ESMA on the proposals in the PRIIPs Consultation Paper, JC 2018 60, and it doesn’t pull any punches.

22 November 2018

ECON calls for two-year extension to UCITS exemption from PRIIPs KIDs

In the middle of the European Supervisory Authorities’ (ESAs) consultation on PRIIPs KIDs, there was cross-party agreement in the European Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee (ECON) that the target date for UCITS to publish PRIIPs KIDs should be extended by two years, from December 2019 to 2021.

30 October 2018

The Volatile Funds Haunting Investors this Halloween

FE data reveals the 45 Investment Association (IA) funds that, over both one and three years, have given investors a fright by being the most volatile, with the added shock of delivering the worst performance figures.

18 October 2018

PRIIPs KIDs annual review

One of the few positive things that can be said about PRIIPs KIDs is that, unlike UCITS KIIDs, they don’t all need to be updated during the same short window at the start of every year. So PRIIPs providers can stagger their workload throughout the year, carrying out their annual reviews after their funds’ accounting dates, possibly.

08 October 2018

Against the odds: funds that sailed through the last decade to top the charts

Lehman Brothers collapsed a decade ago. It was a key milestone in the global financial crisis, teaching investors a painful lesson that nothing is too big to fail. A lot has happened since then and anybody you ask will tell you it’s been a tough decade all round, both on political and economic fronts.

08 October 2018

IA North America funds dominate top performing funds list

With the third quarter of 2018 at an end, data from FE Analytics shows a dramatic change in the constituents of the top 50 best performing funds over the three quarters of 2018 to date, compared with the last three quarters of 2017.

03 October 2018

Confusion over the demise of UCITS KIIDs and the future of PRIIPs KIDs

The European Supervisory Authorities (the ESAs, made up of ESMA, EBA and EIOPA), have published a series of letters between them and the European Commission (EC), over the proposed ending of the exemption for UCITS KIIDs at the end of 2019.

20 September 2018

DC Workplace Pension Template (DCPT) Q&A with FE regulatory consultant, Mikkel Bates

We spoke to Mikkel to get all the necessary information on the DCPT - from what it entails to how fund groups are going about populating the template.

14 September 2018

10 Years On: Best Performing Sectors and Funds Since the Collapse of Lehman Brothers

Over the past decade, nine sectors achieved a first quartile performance ranking within the IA, four of which were smaller companies. IA Japanese Smaller Companies, IA North America Smaller Companies, IA UK Smaller Companies and IA European Smaller Companies were ranked second, third, fourth and sixth respectively.