Company Profile

Lipper is a mutual fund market analysis and research publishing company specialising in all aspects of the European and Asian fund marketplaces. Lipper'’s objectives are to overcome fragmented data and market opacity problems and to share latest insights into marketplace complexities.

Business Development and Project Director

Mauro Baratta is Business Development and Project Director. He has been involved in the research and analysis of the European fund industry for the last 16 years. He started his career working at Lipper and was one of the architects behind the creation of the Global Fund Analyser database. In January 2002 Mauro joined FERI Fund Market Information Ltd (the fore-runner of Lipper FMI) and helped to create and develop SalesWatch and FundFile.

Head of UK & Cross-border Research

Ed Moisson is Head of UK & Cross-border Research. Ed joined Lipper through its acquisition of Fitzrovia International, which he joined in 1999. He specialises in research into fees and flows and related industry dynamics, which inevitably links to performance analysis. Ed has spoken at more than sixty industry conferences and has participated in the European Commission’s UCITS Contact Committee, the OECD’s Committee on Financial Markets, IOSCO’s Committee on Investment Management and CESR’s Sub-group on the KIID. He was commissioned to write INREV’s Fee Metrics Guidelines and a 20-year review of Ucits for ALFI. He sits on committees of the IMA (Sectors) and ALFI (TERs). He writes the monthly Lipper Fund Flash among other regular flows-related commentary. You can follow Ed on Twitter @edmoisson