The Assirt research house has released a ‘strong’ rating for two fund managers to which BT Funds Management is now outsourcing its management in the areas of internationa...
The hybrid securities sector remains a heavily concentrated and risky market despite its general growth and positive returns, and presents a range of complex issues for i...
Van Eyk Research has added another consultant to its agribusiness division, van Eyk Capital, with Dr Peter Dry now assisting analysis in the firm’s annual agribusiness re...
Morningstar has appointed former chief operating officer Scott Cooley as chief executive officer of its Australian and New Zealand businesses....
Australian Unity Funds Management has been awarded an overall rating of ‘competent’ by research house Assirt in the areas of business management and operating capability....
Managers in European funds management markets who did not manage to adapt to volatile markets over the past three years suffered most according to financial information p...
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...
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...
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...
The influential van Eyk research group has placed BT/Sagitta’s listed property funds on a ‘Hold’ rating following the recent resignation of the group’s head of listed pro...
Schroders and Barclays Global Investors have been awarded the top ‘AA’ rating in Van Eyk Research’s 2003 Australian equities sector report....
A decline in total assets under management in Australia as well as continuing weak fund inflows is creating a situation Assirt believes could have “severe consequences” f...
InvestorWeb Research has dropped AMP, Perpetual (Fidelity) and Invesco from its international share manager recommended list in its latest review of the sector....
Assirt has downgraded Colonial First State’s (CFS) business management rating from ‘Strong’ to ‘Competent’ on the back of a spate of recent departures from the group....
The former managing director of Morningstar Australia, Graham Rich, has formed a new association for dealer group and master trust researchers....
This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...