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People & Products

The departure of the head of BT’s listed property team, Antoinette Platter, has not resulted in any ratings downgrades, but will do little to boost the fund manager’s cur...

Financial planning

Colonial First State’s in-house funds management arm suffered another blow today with both of its small caps funds downgraded to a ‘hold’ rating by research house Morning...

Financial planning

MLC has strayed further down the road of “over-diversification” in adding a ninth Australian equities manager to its portfolio, a Morningstar analyst has said....

Financial planning

The Morningstar research house will drop qualitative measurements from its famed star rating of fund managers, announcing today that the ranking system would judge manage...

Financial planning

Research methodologies and processes are the ultimate means by which one research house can differentiate itself from its competitors....

Superannuation

Any adviser unclear over the extent to which super choice will raise the bar on their duty of care towards clients need only look to the recent experience of their collea...

Financial planning

Local fund managers are sure to cash in on a decision today by US-based research giant Morningstar to include Australian funds on its global research platform, the head o...

Financial planning

Deutsche Asset Management’s Global Select Equity and Global Bond funds have been hit with multiple ‘hold’ recommendations due to management changes resulting from the sal...

Financial planning

Mercer Global Investments added three diversified and four sector funds to its investment products range, taking a more aggressive approach to achieving returns whilst re...

Financial planning

New York based global banking and insurance giant Citigroup has sold the majority of its asset management business to US-based asset manager Legg Mason for approximately ...

Financial planning

Customers of Virgin Superannuation will only have to pay a flat fee of 1 per cent a year, but their money will not be actively managed....

Financial planning

452 Capital will need to restructure quickly to ensure business management continuity in light of Warwick Negus’ departure, analysts have said....

Financial planning

Value-oriented fund managers perform best in a bear market, according to new Australian equities manager research from a major platform provider....

Financial planning

Morningstar has awarded its premier 'highly recommended' investment rating to five large cap Australian equities fund managers....

Policy & Regulation

A global database for dealer group research heads, and a tax liability management tool, are next on the agenda for Morningstar following yesterday’s release of its client...

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