Although quantitative investment strategies (QIS) have been embraced by institutional investors, they have not been as widely adopted in wealth management, discretionary management and the IFA market as one would have hoped for, according to panellists at the Delivering stronger returns and achieving transparency with QIS discussion on day one of the virtual SRP Europe 2021 conference.
“There has been a strong pressure from the FCA on portfolio managers to simplify the investment process,” said David Stuff, managing director, 1QAK Multi Asset Funds, adding that one of his experiences in the UK has been a series of products that looked to provide an annual uncorrelated return but failed to live up to the marketing hype. “We have seen the hundreds of millions that went into absolute return funds, which were massively hyped, were widely used but then failed to
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