Citywire - How Smaller DFMs beat Vanguard's LifeStrategy - Sparrows Capital Our SCore Market Equity 60% portfolio delivered 41.5% in the five years to the end of 2023 versus 33.6% for Vanguard LifeStrategy 60% Equity.

FTAdviser: SCore Market Only performance ranked #3 out of 261 by Defaqto - Sparrows Capital Andy Parsons, insight manager investments at Defaqto, takes a closer look at the top-performing portfolios that are categorised as being constituents of the ‘Adventurous’ comparator.

Sparrows Capital hires Arnie Millington for tailored MPS - Sparrows Capital Arnie joins the firm from Seven Investment Management (7IM), where he was responsible for relationships with advisers and financial planners across the Midlands and the North West. Welcome Arnie!

Portfolio Adviser: Mark Northway - How will the MPS market look in five years? - Sparrows Capital MPS is an incredibly powerful tool. Platform tech fosters specialisation and it delivers the benefit of scale to the end investor.

3rd out of 261. Go Sparrows! ftadviser.com/investments/20…

How smaller DFMs beat Vanguard LifeStrategy (citywire.com) Our SCore Market Equity 60% portfolio delivered 41.5% in the five years to the end of 2023 versus 33.6% for Vanguard LifeStrategy 60% Equity.

How will the MPS market look in five years? | PA Adviser (portfolio-adviser.com) MPS is an incredibly powerful tool. Platform tech fosters specialisation and it delivers the benefit of scale to the end investor.

Sparrows Capital bolsters MPS business with senior hire from 7IM (investmentweek.co.uk) Arnie joins the firm from Seven Investment Management (7IM), where he was responsible for relationships with advisers and financial planners across the Midlands and the North West.

A vintage year, then... Spot the Dog: Number of underperforming equity funds falls to 137 (portfolio-adviser.com)

'Advisers are not laser focused on fees when it comes to choosing MPS' - FTAdviser We’re still seeing a lot of AUM attach itself to high cost, active solutions when it’s evident from the data that those have not produced.

David Ogden examines conflicts of interest within vertically integrated business models. Guest insight: Sparrows Capital’s Head of Compliance looks at vertical integration within the advice sector, at potential conflicts of interest and the Consumer Duty - IFA Magazine

An interesting look by the lang cat into FNZ Group's acquisition strategy and process. Inside FNZ's acquisition strategy - The Lang Cat

Owning the market portfolio necessarily means a capitalisation-weighted approach; any other weighting results in manufactured idiosyncratic risk which may help or hurt returns over time. Are equal-weight indices the solution to US concentration concerns? - FTAdviser

Portfolio Advisers Limited's Four Views asks whether cryptocurrencies are finally coming in from the cold. Portfolio Adviser : Portfolio Adviser July/August 2024 (mydigitalpublication.co.uk)

It is incredibly difficult to beat a market benchmark consistently over time, and this performance and the associated consistency of style are to be praised. How hard is it to beat the US market? - FTAdviser

Interesting findings from Research Affiliates' Rob Arnott on the outperformance of index deletions. This highlights one of the costs of indexing - the arbitrage activity around index changes. Index rejects find favour with stock market bargain hunters (ft.com)

Value Assessments across the market remain disappointing, with many managers restricting their output to "we have reviewed our service and we are happy that it provides value" or similar. Not much use to man or beast! (investmentweek.co.uk)

WealthBriefing: Seeing through the market fog - Arnie Millington - Sparrows Capital

Seeing Through The Market Fog At A UK Boutique (wealthbriefing.com)

We’re delighted that the full SCore MPS suite is now available on the Elevate platform. This brings the number of live platforms to 15. SCore MPS suite now available on the Elevate platform - Sparrows Capital