Good buying opportunities exist in industrial property, with high quality assets to be found on an 8.25 per cent yield, according to Charter Hall Direct Property’s ...

The criticisms increasingly levelled against ratings houses are often unfair and symptomatic of failings in the way their research is interpreted and applied, writes Mike...

The chief executive of van Eyk Research, Mark Thomas, has fired a broadside at the Australian investment research industry, criticising his peers for failing to apply hig...

Financial planners know what they want from a ratings house and the common starting point is quality research underpinned by user-friendliness. Mike Taylor reports....

Financial planners and dealer groups rank Lonsec as preferred ratings house on back of its research quality, client service and user-friendliness. Mike Taylor reports....

Money Management's Top 100 Dealer Groups survey reveals Van Eyk Research as dealer groups' research house of choice, while Lonsec and Morningstar maintain broad market re...

Lonsec has been named Money Management's inaugural Funds Management Ratings House of the Year on the back of its focus on gauging what its customers want and delivering t...

The take up of exchange traded funds (ETFs) is still low in the adviser community, despite their increasing use by direct and self-managed super fund investors....

With Asia having been termed a global equities sweet spot in terms of the way it has emerged from the global recession, a new Lonsec sector review has pointed to global e...

Lonsec has released its 2010 Australian Property Sector Review, with the Vanguard Property Securities Index Fund the only fund of 19 reviewed to achieve the highest ratin...

The closing down of India Equities Fund last week is not indicative of what is happening in the Indian market, according to Fiducian Portfolio Services....

Multi-managers feel the increasing sophistication of their investment approach is making it less of a challenge to demonstrate that they can deliver enough active return ...

Multi-manager investment teams are growing, with Lonsec noting in its most recent sector review that the average number of people in a team was 9.3 in 2009, up from 5.6 i...

India's growth story is more positive than most emerging markets, according to Fiducian investment manager Conrad Burge....