Dear Santa: Henry Cobbe's festive fund wish-list

He knows if you’ve been bad or good, so be good for goodness sake…

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Henry Cobbe shares his fund wish-list for good old Father Christmas...

In this Christmas countdown, we run through all the funds that have been, and in some cases remain on, our fund wish-list and hope Santa takes note. What fund providers want to launch and what advisers and managed portfolio service (MPS) providers want to see launched are sometimes quite different. As part of an annual strategic review, we give feedback to the fund houses we work with. We are delighted that many of the requests we have shared with them on our wish-lists over the last few years have now been built.  Sometimes this is part of a broader industry trend, sometimes with ...

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