Morningstar

From fee reductions and discount management, to more board scrutiny. Jeremy Beckwith analyses the changing story behind investment trusts in 2014...

Morningstar head of portfolio management Dan Kemp has branded risk targeting strategies "lunacy", saying they force managers to sell assets at a time when investors will lose the most money.

Morningstar has appointed former Kleinwort Benson chief investment officer Jeremy Beckwith to lead its UK manager research team.

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