The Consensus Investment Funds Survey

What are the trends and the current thinking in the UK’s Discretionary Asset Management, IFA and private investor sectors – and what are the market opportunities ahead? Your answers are provided by the bi-annual Investment Funds Survey (IFS) researched and published by Consensus since 1985.

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How can you gain from the IFS and syndicate membership?

• Understand the current positioning of your market.
• Acquire essential market data to drive your product development and marketing and communications strategies.
• Share the cost of researching critical but often hard-to-reach audiences.
• Gain access to the tracking of the long-term performance of your own and your competitors’ brands.
• Propose topical Survey questions – for example, when new legislation is pending – and commission questions tailored to your own business needs.
• Participation in Survey development workshops.
• Presentations of the results by the Consensus team.

"Using the IFS syndicated surveys have proved extremely useful for our business. Not only do we obtain brand tracking and advertising awareness amongst intermediaries, we also discover valuable information on key products and asset classes. The flexible format allows us to have an input into shaping the survey so that it continues to be beneficial to us and the rest of the syndicate"

Louisa Dickinson, Market Insight Executive, Aviva.

The Future of the Funds Industry – Where to Now?

This is the question we put to a jury of 12 thought-leaders in the industry to mark the 50th Wave of the Consensus Investment Funds Industry.

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It has been widely reported that the RDR is going to turn distribution on it's head – and this is undoubtedly true – but when you add to the mix a global recession, Government bailouts, rock-bottom interest rates, tax hikes and an impending election, we're in for a bumpy ride.

Please feel free to read our Paper. We've added our own thoughts to those of the industry commentators and hope you agree it paints a thought-provoking and inspiring picture. Already we are seeing some of these visions become reality – just look at Widows and Ascentric or SimplyBiz's Verbatim. In our opinion, this is the tip of the iceberg.

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