Morningstar has confirmed the departure of Kathryn Young who was the firm's director of manager research ratings, Asia-Pacific, a position that she was promoted to in April 2016.
Young is to be replaced by Chris Douglas who returns to the market after two years working as a senior leader in Morningstar's North American data business.
A spokesperson for Morningstar has confirmed that there are no other changes to the manager research team at this point in time.