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FBC’s Senior Adviser Brandon Horwitz features in a recent Ignites Europe article

Date added: 27 January 2026

FBC’s Senior Adviser Brandon Horwitz features in Ignites Europe, discussing findings that 96% of UK funds say they have delivered value to investors.

In the article, Brandon notes that “the FCA’s intervention [introducing value assessments] sharpened governance, improved data quality, and drove more active board-level decision making, meaning managers are now better equipped to assess, justify and, where necessary, improve value for investors.”

He also suggests that there could be ways for the regulator to improve the process- “The opportunity [for the FCA] may be to shift emphasis from compliance with the process to demonstrable impact on products and customers, rather than simply tightening thresholds or adding new metrics”.

Subscribers to Ignites Europe can read the full article here

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