Having previously ignored all pleas for a delay to the launch of PRIIPs, the European Parliament threw the issue wide open on 14 September when MEPs voted 602-4 to reject the Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) submitted by the European Commission.
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FE Analytics has won the award for the ‘Leading Independent Planning Tool Provider’ at the Schroders’ UK Platform Awards – marking this the sixth time the planning tool has won the award since 2010.
North American growth funds have been added for the first time to the FE Invest Approved list, as funds in the region are viewed more favourably for UK investors in light of concerns over UK equities as an asset class - following the Brexit vote.
In light of the recent vote by Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) to reject the Level 2 rules in the regulatory technical standards (RTS), we examine what this might mean for their impending implementation.
FE has been supporting the financial advice sector for over 20 years. In our first in-depth research report of the financial advisory industry we look at how Advisers business models are changing and how they are researching and evaluating funds and Asset Managers. The financial advisory community is a broad and diverse one, with no set model for making fund selections that could be described as typical so how do the Asset Management community engage with Advisers to better understand their businesses.
FE Kii Hub has been awarded the accolade of Most Outstanding European UCITS KIIDs Platform in the Corporate LiveWire Global Fund Awards 2016.
Delving more deeply into the details of the latest PRIIPs KIDs regulatory technical standards (RTS) shows that there are, after all, some important differences from the previously published version.
FE’s latest bi-annual Crown ratings rebalance awarded 325 funds with the highly prized five FE Crowns – with 45 funds jumping more than two Crowns to achieve the top accolade.
FE would like to congratulate all the winners of the Fund Manager of the Year Awards 2016. FE's Gary Wheeler and Mika-John Southworth presented the Global Group and UK Income awards to Fidelity International and Evenlode Income on the night (pictured below).
Looking to gain more effective control and management of the Group’s fund data to support its vision for the business over the next decade, this mid-sized asset management company selected FE Precision+ Dissemination to deliver the single, ‘golden’ source needed to ensure accuracy, consistency and timeliness in the data being published about its funds, across all channels - and in the information provided directly to customers and independent financial advisers.