There are strong forces of change affecting asset management in the UK, some of which are global in nature, others are UK specific. Among these forces, let me start with Brexit. There...
River and Mercantile Group says the alignment of a consistent brand across the group - which includes River and Mercantile Asset Management and River and Mercantile Derivatives - reflects the increasing degree...
How choice architecture will influence opt-outs from auto-enrolment How schemes, advisers and other member-facing entities will absorb and communicate new costs and charges data generated by fund managers following Mifid 2 and...
Stewart Bevan is head of pension product development at Simplitium, a transparency services provider. A teenage summer intern project with now-FCA Institutional Disclosure Working Group chair Dr Chris Sier gave him his...
Based in Mercer’s Liverpool office, Holden will join the UK DB leadership team, working alongside Mercer’s Chief Actuarial Officer, Jenny Condron. Holden joined Mercer in Liverpool in 2002 from PwC’s actuarial team. In 2010, she...
The consultancy highlights the CMA's finding that 88 per cent of the FM market is dominated by organisations combining investment consultancy and fiduciary management, with clients not always getting the best...
The number of fund managers pushing clients to embrace environmental, social and governance investing has increased in recent years. Asset managers claim that environmental factors like climate change, social factors such as...
Kataora, who became an associate in 2016, will be responsible for leading the provision of investment advice to DC clients. The appointment follows the promotion of Alex Pocock to the role of...
Fund managers will be required to have two independent directors, comprising at least 25 per cent of the total board membership under the new rules. Responding to a consultation on new rules...
A paper published by the CMA as part of its investigation into the investment consultancy sector found that the gross product return of products that were ‘buy-rated’ by investment consultants is 0.23...
