The Retail Distribution Review provides an opportunity for wealth managers and advisers to review how they charge for investment services. Stuart sets out, from a business perspective, the case for flat fees.
read more Commentary by Stuart FowlerIn the financial services industry the term ‘Independence’ really means something to customers when it has an economic definition. Sadly, RDR has moved so far from economic logic as to render the term useless.
read more Commentary by Stuart FowlerJohn Paulson’s hedge funds famously made $20b betting on a US house price crash. He told the Sunday Times one chart gave him confidence to make his bet. It was the same data I featured on my blog in September 2006. Here’s why.
read more Commentary by Stuart FowlerMy Feedback article in today’s FT explains what risk levels people actually choose when told the truth about equity risk but also about what it costs to avoid it. The evidence comes from our clients’ choices when working with an academically-endorsed approach FTfm editor Pauline Skypala thinks the industry conspires not to tell you about. We do.
read more Commentary by Stuart FowlerFT columnist John Authers says the S&P never got really cheap in the recent bear market and that this is why ‘market historians’ fear it will retest the low. We reckon the March 2009 low was an historic extreme but that does not mean it will not be retested – that is just not predictable.
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