More than £22bn of assets languishing in underperforming multi-asset funds

Figures also show 'extreme home bias'

Pedro Gonçalves
Pedro Gonçalves
clock 25 May 2021 • 3 min read
Asset Intelligence has found that funds with £22.1bn of assets are serial underperformers
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Asset Intelligence has found that funds with £22.1bn of assets are serial underperformers

More than £22bn is currently languishing in multi-asset funds which have underperformed their peers consistently over the last decade, according to research from Asset Intelligence.

Multi-asset funds have grown substantially in the past decade, with a total of £178bn now invested across the main mixed investment sectors. However, analysing consistent long-term underperformance...

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