RESEARCH HOUSE

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While research houses view their pay model as the centrepiece of their offering, fund managers are more concerned about timely and digestable results, writes Jason Spits...

Funds management

Listed investment companies (LICs) are producing high returns with the bonus of high franking despite its relatively poor reputation, a research house found....

Policy & Regulation

ASIC should outsource PDS approvals to an independent research panel funded by planner levy. ...

Financial planning

The launch of an advice business by van Eyk has been questioned by a planning group and cautiously received by another research house...

Financial planning

Telstra Super Financial Planning signs up to Lonsec Retire....

Financial planning

Specialist ETF research house AltaVista Research announced last week it had added eight newly-issued ETFs to its research universe. ...

Funds management

Research house looking at managed account platforms before releasing research results....

Editorial

Given the nature of the relationships which traditionally exist between dealer groups and research houses, how many financial planners can actually claim to have a better...

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If a product receives a glowing review by a research house and subsequently fails, should the research house be partly responsible? The Parliamentary Joint Committee rece...

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Despite having a global presence and scale it was the specific product and services offered locally that have boosted the reputation of Morningstar, according to responde...

Financial planning

Ratings house Zenith Investment Partners has awarded three Legg Mason Australia funds 'Recommended' ratings. ...

Funds management

Morningstar has been named the Money Management Research House of the Year, wresting the title from Lonsec which had won it for the past several years....

Funds management

Five funds are awarded top rating while another five decline involvement. ...

Funds management

Lonsec will expand its research capability to rate both separately-managed accounts (SMAs) and the platforms on which they are offered to investors, with the first rating...

Funds management

High-level investment team turnover in the listed property funds management sector is likely to affect return performance over the next 12 months, according to Zenith Inv...

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ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...

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