The capabilities and expertise that underlie Standard & Poor's Fund Management Ratings can be employed to provide any kind of bespoke research or commissioned reports that clients require. The same standards of independence, expert research techniques, and disciplined and consistent methodology is used to assess management groups and funds outside the ratings process, on behalf of advisors, institutional investors or fund managers themselves.
Fund research can include institutional investors asking Standard & Poor's to carry out due diligence on a fund manager with which they are considering placing money, or a fund group looking to benchmark itself against the disciplines of the ratings process without publishing the results. Qualitative assessment of managers and their funds can be carried out in any area where understanding of investment management philosophies, processes and people is essential.
