UBS has selected Morningstar Australasia, a subsidiary of Morningstar, to provide data and market commentary feeds into its platform for Australian superannuation funds.
Under the terms of the deal, Morningstar would be delivering market and equity data as well as editorial content to the UBS platform to help power the firm’s online investing solutions for superannuation funds.
UBS managing director, head of platforms, Scott Webster, said: “We selected Morningstar for a number of reasons, including ease of integration of their application programming interfaces (APIs) and deep data coverage of Australian markets.”
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