MORNINGSTAR

Financial planning

Morningstar and actuarial and research firm, Plan For Life, have combined to generate what they are claiming to be a more complete picture of the retail funds sector....

Funds management

Morningstar has added its style box tool to Australian equities funds rated by the group as part of an ongoing rollout of the tool in the local market....

People & Products

Research house Morningstar has appointed ex-Assirt executive John Lozano as the head of technology for its Australian business....

Financial planning

Perpetual Investments has emerged as the strongest smaller companies fund manager in Morningstar’s new Australian Equities Smaller Companies qualitative sector strength r...

Funds management

Master trust provider Strategic Investments Australia has dropped Sagitta Rothschild from its listed property trust lineup following the recent departures of a number of ...

Funds management

With over two decades in the game, dealer manager Michael Summers has always kept his practices ahead of their time. John Wilkinson reports....

Financial planning

Morningstar has appointed former chief operating officer Scott Cooley as chief executive officer of its Australian and New Zealand businesses....

Financial planning

Recent ratings from Assirt, Lonsec and Morningstar....

Financial planning

Geof Marsh has joined Morningstar as Australian national account executive, and will now be responsible for managing and developing the research house’s relationships wit...

Financial planning

Research houses Lonsdale Securities (Lonsec), Morningstar and InvestorWeb have maintained their support for JBWere, following its merger with Goldman Sachs, which was for...

Financial planning

Morningstar has downgraded BT/Sagitta’s listed property outlook in response to the recent team changes, while upgrading BT’s international equities outlook....

Financial planning

Perennial Investment Partners has been given a poor rating by research house Morningstar due mainly to the fund manager’s continued “sub-par returns” over the medium to l...

Rate the raters

The last 12 months were as turbulent for research houses as for the managers they rate and, as Jason Spits writes, this was reflected in the second annual Rate the Raters...

Rate the raters

Rating processes are usually a point of contention and as Ben Abbott writes, this year’s Rating the Raters survey was no exception....

Financial planning

For the most part, research houses accepted the criticisms levelled at them by fund managers – but there were some things they weren’t prepared to take lying down. Lucie ...

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