Hit or Miss: A Six-month Review of our UK Fund Forecast

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While 2022 ended and 2023 began with winds of caution, as estimated net flows crossed 0.1% just once between December to April, the month of May brought winds of hope, with net flows of close to 0.3% of beginning assets.

Come on Down, Fund Managers—the Price Is Right

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In general, the challenge of AoV is that it is a one-sided measure. The AoV is focused far more on supply and suppliers’ actions than on demand and the actions and motivations of investors.

Windows into Defined Contribution, Q1 2023

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Goods-producing sectors are, as with employment figures, a relative minority, but represent an outsized proportion of DC assets. They accounted for 23% of active participants in DC plans as of year-end 2021 but made up 32% of industry assets over the same period.

An ESG Fund By Any Other Name

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Our headline results therefore fit what most will have expected and/or wanted to observe. Funds purporting to be greener—or at least those more forward on marketing their ESG credentials—are on average greener.

Article 8: Too big to not fail

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Are article 8 funds a victim of their success? Since the ink dried on SFDR in 2019, investment funds classified as Article 8 have collected over $4 trillion in assets across 8,500 funds…