Morningstar

Morningstar Associates Europe has added five fund portfolios to its Portfolio Selections service for advisers and their clients.

As regular readers will know, over the last few weeks, we have been looking at some of the specialist financial planning tools. Our review of Morningstar gave us a different perspective as it was its depth rather than breadth that stood out.

Fidelity FundsNetwork has adopted Morningstar's qualitative fund research to allow the fund supermarket's users access to independent fund analysis.

Morningstar Associates Europe, the independent investment research provider, is launching a range of model portfolios for advisers to help them select appropriate funds for clients.

No IMA sector was able to generate an average positive return in September, with a flat result for the Money Market category providing the only respite from last month's stock turmoil.

Only six out of 53 Morningstar fund categories delivered a positive return in the first quarter this year, four of those from the bond sector.

Fidelity's investment guru Anthony Bolton will join other big names in the world of UK fund management including BlackRock's Richard Plackett, Neptune's Robin Geffen and Artemis' Mark Tyndall at the Morningstar Investment Conference in May.

Boutique investment house Baillie Gifford has won two 2008 Morningstar UK fund awards.

Morningstar has revealed the line-up of speakers for its 2008 investment conference.

Equities swung back into favour in February as investors regained faith in the emerging markets, the latest Morningstar research suggests.