Boring Money: Asset managers 'marking own homework' after just 3% of funds not delivering value

Baillie Gifford and Franklin Templeton among groups offering ‘most useful’ AoVs

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The first cohort of Assessment of Value (AoV) reports were “marking their own homework” after 97% of investment funds claimed to offer value to investors, according to Boring Money’s Holly Mackay.

A review by Boring Money of the AoV reports from 26 asset management firms, which collectively fed back on 968 funds, found that 79% of the funds were found by the asset managers in question to be delivering good value. Another 18% of the funds were said to be delivering value but were being monitored or having some fee reductions implemented, leaving just 3% of funds deemed to be not delivering value. The value of value assessments: What next for AoVs? In contrast, Boring Money noted that research based on more than 11,500 responses from UK fund investors found that asset managers...

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