Investors should stop paying "extremely high fees" for performance which on average falls in line with the markets, a leading think tank has said.
A report on financial services from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) also suggested more should be done to make the case for a wide-ranging financial transaction tax and banks should be spilt up. The paper, Don't bank on it: the finacialisation on the UK economy, said: "After the events of the last five years, finance - and investment banking in particular - are held in very low esteem in the UK, but a modern economy cannot function without a healthy financial sector. "For historical reasons, the UK has a larger financial sector than other similar economies and this c...
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