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OBSR is an investment research company focusing on the UK retail funds market, incorporating Oeic, unit trusts and multi-manager funds, and focuses on identifying, researching and rating mutual funds across a range of asset classes.

It is launching the international business, OBSR Global Fund Ratings, following its acquisition of the offshore research business Crosby Forsyth Research in late 2008.

Richard Romer-Lee, research director at OBSR, said: "OBSR fund ratings are a mark of quality and hard earned, and this will hold as true for internationally based funds as for UK funds."

OBSR said that each year it conducts over 2,000 one-to-one meetings with fund managers and undertakes quarterly assessment of rated funds, ensuring that they are delivering their objectives.

Romer-Lee added: "We maintain our rigorous independence by not charging fund managers to research their funds.

"Our research team is unrivalled in terms of knowledge and expertise which enables us to seek out the best fund managers globally then filter the market with our investment criteria to create the meaningful qualitative research for which OBSR is renowned."