Standard & Poor’s has begun providing fund research services for dealer group giant Futuro.
The arrangement will see S&P offer ratings on managed funds, direct property and structured products, along with access to third-party research on Australian equities from Aegis and superannuation funds from SuperRatings.
Futuro’s advisers will be able access S&P research via the Xplan platform.
Meanwhile, two new Melbourne-based analysts have joined S&P’s fund ratings team in 2008.
Nathan Bode and Anthony Karaminas have joined from Westpac and Goldman Sachs JBWere respectively.
Bode joins as a rating specialist in direct property, reporting to head of property research, Peter Ward, while Karaminas joins the team as a generalist, reporting to head of managed funds research, Greg Barr.
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