A whitepaper from Ross McLellan—who recently started a transition management consulting business following his departure from State Street—asserts that the industry practices have remained essentially unchanged for 15 years.
State public pension plans in the US spent $7.8 billion on management fees in 2011, and the premium that the plans are paying for active management may not be worth its price, a new report has claimed.
A report from consultancy Towers Watson illustrates how asset owners who are more inclined to fire underperforming managers would be better off riding it out.