Graham Bentley questions independence of certain 'best buy' lists

The gbi2 managing director was commenting on a report co-authored by Fundscape and gbi2, which has analysed 48 ‘gatekeepers' across four categories of fund selector - adviser 'buy' lists, direct-to-consumer (D2C) platforms, rating agencies and discretionary fund managers. Graham Bentley: Where's the value in asset management's layer cake? One reason for creating the report, Bentley said, had been to try and establish why some funds were deemed worthy of inclusion by D2C platforms yet not by some independent research companies. He explained there were notable differences between fun...