James Connington

James Connington joined Fund Intelligence as Distribution Editor in 2018, where he heads up coverage of the key trends in mutual fund and ETF distribution. Prior to that he was a personal finance reporter at the Telegraph in London, predominantly covering retail investing. He has a bachelor’s degree in Geography from University College London (UCL) and also studied at the University of Bonn/United Nations University in Germany.

6 months ago

Record number of fund managers take out protection against imminent sell off

More than a third of managers, representing $687bn in assets, reported owning such insurance

6 months ago

Adviser, asset manager disconnect on multifactor ETFs a barrier to adoption

Institutional adoption more advanced; issuers split on prospects for factor rotation

7 months ago

Offering models valuable for building distributor relationships, even without adviser adoption

Adviser insistence on in-house investment management ‘verges on malpractice’, analyst says

James Connington

Record number of fund managers take out protection against imminent sell off

Adviser, asset manager disconnect on multifactor ETFs a barrier to adoption

Offering models valuable for building distributor relationships, even without adviser adoption

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