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• November, 2013

  Call for greater transparency on fees

  Posted by Nick Kempster in Report 0

  Financial Conduct Authority chief executive Martin Wheatley has called for greater transparency in the UK asset management sector. Wheatley said that the value of funds managed by the sector has increased from 1% of GDP in 1960 to 40% of GDP in 2010, with UK fund managers responsible for £5.4 trillion in funds at the end of 2012. Nearly 50% of the UK ...

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• November, 2013

  Secure Income Assets

  Posted by Nick Kempster in Alternative Investments , FOCUS 0

  Alex Carpenter, Managing Director, UK Institutional Client Group, BlackRock. Local authority pension portfolios stand to benefit from both the matching and growth characteristics of alternative, income-producing assets, says Alex Carpenter, Managing Director, BlackRock's UK Institutional Client Group Local Authority pension funds (LAPFs) are ...

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• February, 2013

  Measured returns from private equity

  Posted by Nick Kempster in FOCUS , Private Equity 0

  Peter McKellar, Chief Investment Officer and Co-ordinating Partner, SL Capital Partners. Recent research into private equity demonstrates 300-400 basis points of outperformance over the long term compared to public equity markets. Peter McKellar of SL Capital Partners argues that investors in private equity should focus on manager selection to generate ...

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