St James’s Place fund in the doghouse over underperformance Investing St James’s Place’s Global Quality Fund has retained its spot as the largest fund to be consistently underperforming after falling 26 per cent below its benchmark over the last three years. The report from Bestinvest, which identified the funds in the ‘doghouse’ due to persistent underperformance, found 137 funds struggling to match their peers. Despite the [...]
Terry Smith’s Fundsmith Equity escapes the doghouse, but £54bn still stuck in underperforming funds Investing As many as 137 equity investment funds in the UK have been condemned to the ‘doghouse’ after consistently underperforming their market benchmark over the last three years. The report from Bestinvest, which identified the funds in the ‘doghouse’ due to persistent underperformance, found £53.4bn of investor cash stuck in funds that have consistently underperformed the [...]
Evelyn Partners private equity sale: Is this the first domino to fall? Investment Evelyn Partners, the wealth management and accountancy firm that manages £60bn in assets, is now up for sale by its private equity owner.