RESEARCH HOUSE

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While research houses view their pay model as the centrepiece of their offering, fund managers are more concerned about timely and digestable results, writes Jason Spits...

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Funds management

Listed investment companies (LICs) are producing high returns with the bonus of high franking despite its relatively poor reputation, a research house found....

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Policy & Regulation

ASIC should outsource PDS approvals to an independent research panel funded by planner levy. ...

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Financial planning

The launch of an advice business by van Eyk has been questioned by a planning group and cautiously received by another research house...

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Financial planning

Telstra Super Financial Planning signs up to Lonsec Retire....

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Financial planning

Specialist ETF research house AltaVista Research announced last week it had added eight newly-issued ETFs to its research universe. ...

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Funds management

Research house looking at managed account platforms before releasing research results....

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Editorial

Given the nature of the relationships which traditionally exist between dealer groups and research houses, how many financial planners can actually claim to have a better...

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If a product receives a glowing review by a research house and subsequently fails, should the research house be partly responsible? The Parliamentary Joint Committee rece...

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Despite having a global presence and scale it was the specific product and services offered locally that have boosted the reputation of Morningstar, according to responde...

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Financial planning

Ratings house Zenith Investment Partners has awarded three Legg Mason Australia funds 'Recommended' ratings. ...

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Funds management

Morningstar has been named the Money Management Research House of the Year, wresting the title from Lonsec which had won it for the past several years....

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Funds management

Five funds are awarded top rating while another five decline involvement. ...

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Funds management

Lonsec will expand its research capability to rate both separately-managed accounts (SMAs) and the platforms on which they are offered to investors, with the first rating...

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Funds management

High-level investment team turnover in the listed property funds management sector is likely to affect return performance over the next 12 months, according to Zenith Inv...

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