NBNZ tops new Morningstar ratings

Another of the big changes is that the distribution of ratings has been normalised. That is the one and five star categories each account for 10% of the market, two and four star managers make up 22.5% each of the universe and the remainder are three star managers.

That means unless the pool of managers increases in New Zealand there will never be more than one five star manager and one, one star manager.

Other big changes are that managers who chose not to get rated under the old system, such as Sovereign, ASB Bank, Fidelity and Royal & SunAlliance, are now rated.

However, a number of niche managers like Macquarie, JB Were, Equitable and Fisher Funds lose their ratings as they have insufficient funds across asset classes.

Tower general manager Richard Baker says the new system also penalises organisations that dominate sectors with a small number of funds.

Tower, which goes from four to two stars, is one of those managers. The company has a $200 million plus mortgage group investment fund, but because there aren’t many funds in this sector it doesn’t get included in the rating process. Also Tower is a strong player in the small hedge fund space.

While some managers don’t have company ratings they do have new ratings for each of their funds on offer.

The Bank of New Zealand, which won the fund manager of the year awards from both Morningstar and FundSource last year has been given a three star rating.

ING, which was a five star manager, is now a four star one, while ANZ has gone up one star to four.

Read what the fund managers think here Managers have their say on new ratings

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