Fund flows: How has the UK landscape changed since 2000?

Its research contained in The Essential Guide to the UK Fund Distribution Landscape study found sales of equity funds reached their peak during the dotcom bubble at the turn of the millennium, but have since declined. The report said: "The bursting of the dotcom bubble in 2000 resulted in many first time equity fund investors getting their fingers burnt. At that time, over 80% of fund managers' assets under management were in equity funds. Fundscape blasts regulators' instructions on transaction costs "By 2007, that proportion had declined to 70% and although the value of equity fu...