Asset managers have engaged in a race to the bottom in recent years, with providers competing to offer increasingly low fees, explains Fadi Zaher, Legal & General Investment Management. But what is the true cost?

Passive managers can be as loud as active managers when it comes to keeping watch over companies and influencing management to act in the best interests of shareholders, society and the environment, explains François Millet, Lyxor ETF.

Technology is by far the best performing stock market sector so far this year. Think the tech sector's fate is in the hands of a few big name stars? Think again, asks Supriya Menon, Senior Multi Asset Strategist at Pictet Asset Management.

A mass of new information types, combined with new methods of analysis is giving investors the tools to enhance long-term performance, argue Ben Wicks and Mark Ainsworth, both Schroders.