Annika Bradley joins Morningstar

Morningstar has appointed Annika Bradley as its new director of manager research ratings for the Australasian region.

Bradley was most recently a director with financial services consultant Lodrino and has held board positions with the CIMA Society of Australia the Port Curtis Coral Coast Trust. She was previously the head of SMSF investment solutions with Eviser and a portfolio manager at QSuper and a product manager with QIC.

In her new role, Bradley will lead Morningstar's qualitative research on Australian and New Zealand fund managers, said Morningstar Australiasia chief executive Jamie Wickham. "This move will allow us to support the continued growth of our manager research client base and our strategic desire to grow both our Research Subscription and Research Advisory business."

Bradley replaces Aman Ramrakha, who was promoted to director of manager selection services.

"We are very pleased to have Aman and now Annika appointed to their new roles. We're seeing more demand for client-facing activity to support the implementation of our manager research, including APL management and model construction, and Annika's appointment as ratings head further boosts the depth and experience of our research leadership team," said Wickham.

Reporting from Kanika Sood at Financial Standard contributed to this story.