The Investment Management Association (IMA) plans to complete work to improve charges disclosure and introduce an effective statement of principles by the end of the year, the organisation's chief executive has said.
What has caused investors to revisit absolute return funds?
UK investors put the most money into Absolute Return funds for over four years in January, as retail investors re-evaluated their equity exposure.
The skill of active fund managers "adds real value" to investors, but the market may need to improve at identifying that skill quicker, according to Investment Management Association (IMA) chief executive Daniel Godfrey.
Invesco Perpetual has made a major change to its charging structure across its range of funds, scrapping the annual management charge in favour of a single charge which encompasses all costs.
Investment Management Association (IMA) chief executive Daniel Godfrey says we should "interrogate quite hard" the assertion that the price of fund management has dropped elsewhere in the world, but not in the UK.
A dozen financial services organisations have met to discuss their concerns and share their objectives and initiatives in an attempt to "harness the untapped potential of working collaboratively".
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The Investment Management Association (IMA) has said it is open to the prospect of 'radical change' as it sets out recommendations for the use of dealing commission to purchase investment research.