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Risk profiling group ProQuest is close to signing deals with four financial services groups in moves that will expand its Australian presence as well as launching its bra...

Financial planning

Putting together the data needed to compile the Money Management Top 100 dealer’s survey is not always a simple task. As such it is not something all dealer groups are pr...

Financial planning

Star ratings and other qualitative ratings are playing an increasingly powerful role in the funds management industry. Rob Keavney asks who is researching the researchers...

Financial planning

Morningstar has dropped another star off BT Fund Management’s rating, downgrading the fund manager from three to two stars....

Financial planning

Fund manager Tyndall Investment Manager has received conflicting ratings from two of the industry’s research houses....

Financial planning

Well-known financial services figure Bonnie Guilford has departed AMP Financial Planning and joined Timbercorp in the newly created position of marketing and technical ma...

Financial planning

Forget wrap accounts, screen scrapers and Internet broking, the next big battle in the financial service industry will take place on the financial planner’s desktop....

Financial planning

Recent missives fired from research houses raise serious questions about the star rating system used for rating managed funds in this country....

Financial planning

Global research group Standard & Poors is to take on Australia’s three research houses after finalising a deal with research group Investment Data Technologies (IDT)....

Financial planning

What’s in a master trust? Quite a bit, if you believe most of the hype written about them....

Financial planning

Five years have passed since ASSIRT rattled the market with news of its pay-to-be-rated scheme. Zilla Efrat revisits the debate and examines what has happened since....

Financial planning

Australian financial planners, and the research houses they rely on, come out "streets ahead" of their British and American counterparts, according to participants on the...

Financial planning

BT Funds Management has won over all but one of the dealer groups and research houses expressing doubts over BT’s management following its planned merger with Deutsche Ba...

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