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Assirt chief executive Krystyna Weston has announced her departure from the research house to take up the role of head of retail distribution with AMP Henderson Global In...

Financial planning

Van Eyk Research says BT Funds Management has been slow to utilise its connections with US parent, Principal, but that the fund manager is at last making steps in the rig...

Financial planning

HSBC’s overall three star rating from Morningstar has survived a review by the research house which had scaled down the majority of the fund manager’s qualitive ratings....

Financial planning

BT Funds Management (BTFM) will expand its international capabilities with the addition of small number of Australian analysts in the group’s investment offices in Singap...

Financial planning

Morningstar has confirmed BNP Paribas’s one star manager rating following the qualitative assessments of its subcontracted investment management and international equitie...

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Since the news of the purchase of van Eyk Research by William M Mercer, as reported by Money Management last week, hit the market the question has been raised as to wheth...

Financial planning

Research house Morningstar has maintained a downgrade on Colonial First State’s flagship Australian equities fund, the Imputation Fund, following the announcement last we...

Financial planning

The recent Money Management Rating the Raters Survey, which gauged fund managers’ attitudes to research houses, has drawn responses from the research groups featured in t...

Financial planning

In line with Assirt shifting its focus from a pure research based group to offering diversified research consultancy services, former NSP Buck investment consultant gener...

Financial planning

Morningstar has changed its qualitative ratings model that will extend both the range and number of funds rated by the research house without changing its 50/50 qualitati...

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<i>Money Management</i><i>’</i><i>s</i> Rating the Raters survey has brought to the surface a number of grievances and added a missing element in the debate on the value ...

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Despite rating the value that research houses provide as high, funds managers are not clear on how the research market differentiates itself, and as a result, who is best...

Editorial

Following a poor rating, fund managers are the first to criticise a research house’s approach as either too qualitative or quantitative in its focus. However, as FIONA MO...

Financial planning

Research house Morningstar says it is definitely not pulling out of the Australian market despite continuing industry speculation that such a move is imminent....

Financial planning

There is no doubt a major trend in the industry over the past five years has been for the majority of retail investment to go through administration platforms such as wra...

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