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Jupiter CEO 'sceptical' of active share disclosure trend

Maarten Slendebroek warns that active metric is not the 'be-all-and-end-all' as firm's asset growth slows for 2014

Maarten Slendebroek
Maarten Slendebroek

The chief executive of Jupiter Fund Management, Maarten Slendebroek, has poured cold water on the recent spate of fund managers revealing their active share figures.

A succession of fund managers have reacted to the growing focus on closet indexers - firms which charge active fees but appear to hug the indexes - by publishing their active share figures. On Tuesday, Edinburgh-based Baillie Gifford published figures showing that two of its funds have a 99% rating.

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