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Rate the raters

Lonsec has once again snatched the Money Management Research House of the Year title. However, Morningstar and Mercer are catching up....

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People & Products

To help build its Australian sales and client relationship capabilities, Morningstar has appointed two business development managers....

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Financial planning

Macquarie has renamed the COIN financial planning software and sold its institutional software licence to home in on the IFA market....

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Editorial

This month, PortfolioConstruction Forum asked the research houses: Key man risk is often cited by dealer group researchers and advisers as a sufficiently significant conc...

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Editorial

Julian Robertson suggests a practical strategy when introducing money into the market and another for managing existing portfolios....

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Editorial

The increasing acceptance of managed futures is welcome news, but Dominic McCormick believes retail investors should know what to expect....

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Funds management

Growth funds were down over the second quarter of 2012 while income-focused options fared better, according to Morningstar's latest managed fund performance report....

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Funds management

Financial advisers should rethink the benefits of value-style share funds as active management falls across the Australian large-cap share funds sector, according to Morn...

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Funds management

With less money going around, boutique fund managers are facing a dangerous period and those with unsustainable business structures are set to be driven out of the market...

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Financial planning

The consolidation within the financial planning dealer group space is a potential concern for research houses over the long-term, but at the moment it's business as usual...

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Rate the raters

The results of the first part of Money Management’s annual Rate the Raters survey are in and Lonsec seems to have come out on top yet again, albeit by a smaller margin. B...

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Rate the raters

Morningstar’s rating in this year’s survey of fund managers has slightly deteriorated over the past 12 months, particularly in the area of methodology....

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Editorial

Morningstar's Kathryn Young discusses the pitfalls lurking in trailing returns data and the best ways an investor can use it in fund assessment....

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Funds management

Lonsec has yet again come out on top in Money Management's 2012 Rate the Raters survey, but other researchers have been closing in on the firm over the past 12 months....

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Financial planning

One part of successful investing is to keep the costs of investing low. Marking 15 years since the establishment of Vanguard’s range of index funds for wholesale investor...

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