If anyone is in a good position to sell the idea of traditional fund products to the French retail investor, it is the popular head of Natexis Asset Square, Philippe Couvrecelle. He reveals his plans to Yuri Bender

Investment funds’ total expense ratios (TERs) have so far been opaque – which has suited the giants as their TERs are the biggest. But, with the European Union’s ruling that investors should be told exactly how much they are paying for funds, this looks set to change. Roxanne McMeeken reports

While the recent move into a core/satellite approach by the French government may have sparked somewhat of a resurgence of interest in the area, the main reason is the wide adaptation of exchange traded funds. ETFs make asset allocation switches cheap and easy to make with a direct impact on risk management

Investment managers commonly identify and discuss risk in terms of the deviation from a given index.

But there is a different reality for clients who are actually putting their savings into investment products