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ANZ enters fast growing ETF market

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2015
... ETF (ZOZI), which includes Australia's best performing 50 large cap companies and 50 mid-caps. ANZ also launched two smart beta funds; the S&P/ASX300 High Yield Plus ETF (ZYAU), which "looks at total share buybacks of each ASX300 company over the last ...

Smart beta here to stay, research confirms

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
Smart beta is present in over half of the world's portfolios, with professional investors increasingly combining multiple smart beta strategies, new global research found. The FTSE Russell Smart Beta: 2015 Global Survey Findings from Asset Owners survey ...

HSBC pitches low vol strategy to instos

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
... asset management's head of global equities Angus Parker said. HSBC's Global Low Vol strategy sits within the manager's smart beta range of funds and aims to build a portfolio that avoids volatility and holds assets for the long term. The managers use ...

End heavy weighting in US equities: Tempo AM

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
... had been the top market performer in only three years: 2011, 2013 and 2014. The trend is reflected in Tempo's fund, a smart beta strategy that aims to outperform the MSCI index by investing equal parts of the portfolio in eight different equity markets. ...

Tempo finds beta growth in Europe, Asia

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
Boutique fund manager Tempo Asset Management is turning its global smart beta strategy away from the United States and Canada and finding growth in Europe and Asia. Tempo principal Joe Bracken told Financial Standard that the Tempo Global Equity Fund ...

Investors misunderstand smart beta: AXA IM

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
Investors' misunderstanding of 'smart beta' is leading them to inferior products, according to AXA Investment Managers director for Australia, Craig Hurt. Hurt said there is a common misconception that the term refers to indices weighted by some means ...

Van Eck ETFs added to CFS FirstWrap

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2015
... stock concentration in the Australian market." He added, "Financial advisers are increasingly turning to ETFs based on smart beta indices. ETFs can be used to gain targeted exposure for clients' portfolios at a lower cost than actively managed funds ...

STOXX enters Australian market

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2015
... looks after more than 7,000 offerings, including all global regions spanning blue chips to benchmarks to strategies to smart beta.

Smart beta, fixed income ETFs surge

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2015
The rise of smart beta, currency hedged funds and fixed income funds are the biggest trends occurring in the global exchange traded fund (ETF) market, according to Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management (DAWM) head of South Asia passive investments Sam ...

Not over yet for active management

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2015
... even further, and then in the 1990s and beyond it was realised that part of what we thought was alpha was actually 'smart beta' buried inside higher level factors such as momentum or volatility investing. Against these factors, it is very inefficient ...