RESEARCH HOUSES

Editorial

It is said that a year is a long time in politics but in the world of technology and software it is close to eternity....

Financial planning

Two ex-employees of major research houses, Angela Ashton and Amanda Crowley, have set up their own independent research group, Investment Research Solutions (IRS)....

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The breakdown last week of the proposed deal between the William M Mercer consulting group and van Eyk Research has once again placed the spotlight well and truly on the ...

Financial planning

UBS Global Asset Management came from almost nowhere to win this year’s Fund Manager of the Year award. DAVID HOVENDEN spoke to John Larum and Colin Woods about the group...

Financial planning

When Greg Perry announced his departure from CFS, DOMINIC McCORMICK says a vintage exhibition of marketing muscle and finesse left many research houses dancing to the inv...

Financial planning

Merill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM) has created an internal research division focusing on the delivery and service of research to investment consultants and research ...

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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

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

Research house InvestorWeb will phase out the purchase of raw data from Morningstar as it seeks to create its own, depriving the latter of a sizeable portion of its reven...

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The words ethics and integrity seem to sit comfortably alongside the work of research groups. But, as GEORGE LIONDIS reports, funds managers paint an entirely different p...

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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...

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Funds managers are not as hardline in their attitudes towards research houses compared to nine years ago. FIONA MOORE compares the survey results and the responses of fun...

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Research houses have not met the expectations of fund managers in the key areas of ethics, integrity and disclosure according to results from the <i>Money Management Rati...

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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...

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