'The Great British Wealth Off' - Fundscape begins investment project

Year-long experiment

Victoria McKeever
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Fundscape has launched a year-long experiment to compare the performance of both advised and non-advised active and passive investment solutions.

The 'Great British Wealth Off' will run until 1 February 2018 and could continue for another year if there is sufficient demand. Five investments were selected for the competition: one robo‐adviser (Moneyfarm), one active fund of funds (Architas MA Active Progressive), two active multi‐asset funds (MI Hawksmoor Vanbrugh and Royal London Sustainable World), and one passive fund of funds (Vanguard LifeStrategy 80% equity). £300 has been invested in each fund, with only funds with the same Morningstar SRRI rating of four out of seven selected. The Moneyfarm profile chosen was 'pioneering in...

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