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Whichever way you cut the data, van Eyk Research beats the other research houses hands down. Julie Bennett reports....
Financial planning
Lonsec has become the first research group to changes its rating for the Colonial First State Future Leaders Fund, moving to a hold position after senior portfolio manage...
Financial planning
Lonsec has become the first research group to changes its rating for the Colonial First State Future Leaders Fund, moving to a hold position after senior portfolio manage...
Financial planning
Challenger International’s flagship fund, the Howard Mortgage Trust, has seen its assets under management rise to more than $2 billion, placing it in the top 10 largest m...
Financial planning
IN THE weeks since Westpac announced the purchase of BT, alongside that of Sagitta, speculation has been rife about who will stay, what jobs they will hold and who will l...
Financial planning
ASSIRT and Asgard will form a closer relationship in the future following the appointment of Caroline Saunders to oversee Assirt’s funds research business in addition to ...
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It is said that a year is a long time in politics but in the world of technology and software it is close to eternity....
Financial planning
Two ex-employees of major research houses, Angela Ashton and Amanda Crowley, have set up their own independent research group, Investment Research Solutions (IRS)....
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The breakdown last week of the proposed deal between the William M Mercer consulting group and van Eyk Research has once again placed the spotlight well and truly on the ...
Financial planning
UBS Global Asset Management came from almost nowhere to win this year’s Fund Manager of the Year award. DAVID HOVENDEN spoke to John Larum and Colin Woods about the group...
Financial planning
When Greg Perry announced his departure from CFS, DOMINIC McCORMICK says a vintage exhibition of marketing muscle and finesse left many research houses dancing to the inv...
Financial planning
Merill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM) has created an internal research division focusing on the delivery and service of research to investment consultants and research ...
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Since the news of the purchase of van Eyk Research by William M Mercer, as reported by Money Management last week, hit the market the question has been raised as to wheth...
Financial planning
The recent Money Management Rating the Raters Survey, which gauged fund managers’ attitudes to research houses, has drawn responses from the research groups featured in t...
Financial planning
Research house InvestorWeb will phase out the purchase of raw data from Morningstar as it seeks to create its own, depriving the latter of a sizeable portion of its reven...
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