Bridge Investment Intelligence launches 'first-of-its-kind' MPS research tool

Tool aims to tackle “crowded and complex” market

Sophia Panayi
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UK-based investment research firm Bridge Investment Intelligence has launched Bridge, a “first-of-its-kind” platform providing financial advisers with institutional-grade research, oversight and reporting on Managed Portfolio Services (MPS).

The platform is designed to tackle advisers' "over-reliance" on high-level data tools that favour momentum investing over genuine evaluation of an MPS provider's underlying investment process, according to Bridge Investment Intelligence. Speaking to Professional Adviser, Bridge Investment Intelligence founder Sam Buckingham explained how the tool chooses which MPS providers to include in an "increasingly crowded and complex market". Using his background as a portfolio manager and fund researcher, he begins with a quantitative analysis of the MPS to determine the value added by the fun...

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