Jupiter questions 'managed' pension fund poor performance

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• '£1 billion plus' life company funds are performing poorly • Personal pension investors need ac...

• '£1 billion plus' life company funds are performing poorly • Personal pension investors need active fund management • Jupiter SIPP offers investment diversity and potential for outperformance Jupiter Unit Trust Managers Limited has launched an attack on traditional managed pension funds, lambasting their poor performance and lack of courage to deviate from each other and their respective indices. Drawing on research [see below], which demonstrates the poor performance of some of the largest life company managed funds, each holding more than a billion pounds of pension in...

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