You’ve earned your money and you don’t want to put it in the bank— so how do you invest it? One answer has always been to get on the phone to a fund manager who, for a fee, would start putting your cash into new, hot investments. The returns from this can be substantial and over the years it has been a system that made people a lot of money.
But it brought with it a whole host of problems and compromises. For one thing, to get into an “active” fund—that is, a fund managed by an individual or team picking stocks based on their own expertise—you needed to be ultra-wealthy. Second, the fees charged by those fund managers could be pretty steep. And third, there was no guarantee your returns would be any better than simply buying stocks in the top 20 companies listed on the FTSE 100.
In short, the fund management world of old was expensive, exclusive and pretty risky. Worst of all, you were locked in. Once your money was in a fund, it was often very difficult to get it out again. It was an industry ripe for disruption.
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