Model portfolios have been positioned as the tool advisers use to allocate assets and create investment scenarios for clients but are they a reliable replacement for doin...
Robert Keavney returns to the topic of hedge funds, and stands firm on his view that this asset class requires a higher level of wariness among advisers....
After some tough times, Morningstar has become a self-sustaining research business with advisory groups opening up the doors to external offerings. Kate Kachor reports....
Perennial Asia has received a five star rating from Morningstar for its wholesale IOOF/Perennial Asia Equities Trust....
Assirt Research has lost two more staff following the resignation of its head of data, Phil Waterfall and project manager and investment analyst, Tim Bowring....
Morningstar has snared a senior executive from competing firm Assirt Research as the group continues to restructure its web solutions division away from core development ...
It may have begun as an afterthought, but today van Eyk Research is leading the pack. Ross Kelly reports....
Dealers groups are now incorporating research from a range of providers. Lucia Appleby reports....
Morningstar’s push into the area of investment consulting has drawn its first success with the Auswide master fund signing the managed funds research house to a three yea...
Managed funds research house Morningstar is claiming managed funds are able to beat any given benchmark but few do so, due to a lack of manager skill....
How a rating house conducts its research has been a contentious issue for some time, but as Jason Spits writes, fund managers are still seeking an open and wide-ranging p...
The research market has been a busy area of financial services over the last 12 months particularly as a market of five players – IWL, Assirt, Morningstar, Lonsec and van...
The legal battle between Graham Rich and Morningstar Australia and Morningstar Incorporated lurched ahead last week after the Federal Court gave directions that the two s...
Morningstar Research is on the verge of naming a new associate director of research but has at the same time announced the redundancy of three research analysts from the ...
Research house Morningstar has downgraded BT Funds Management’s international equities capability following the much-publicised scandal involving its US-based management ...
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...