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ETF investors soar to 1.7m

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2022
... education opportunities for issuers, financial advisers and investing platforms." The latest Morningstar research shows Vanguard, BetaShares, and iShares continue to dominate the local ETF market, capturing more than 77.7% of the total net inflows. Vanguard ...

Vanguard suspends trading in Russian securities

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2022
Vanguard has suspended the purchasing of Russian securities from all its actively managed funds and is also working to divest passive holdings. In a statement, Vanguard said its total exposure to Russia only accounts for about 0.01% of client assets ...

Direct indexing: The next evolution?

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2022
... by 2025, drawing flows that would otherwise be snapped up by ETFs or mutual funds. To explain direct indexing further, Vanguard senior investment strategist Inna Zorina uses the analogy of going to the gym. "Normally, there are quite a wide range of ...

Low fees, niche sectors win ETF war

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2022
... intense competition in ETFs are those with low fees or offering exposure to niche sectors like disruptive technology. Vanguard, BetaShares, and iShares remain at the top of Australia's ETF market, capturing more than 77.7% of the total net inflows. ...

AustralianSuper to grow external mandates, hires

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2022
... with the likes of Alphinity, AXA Investment Managers, Dimensional, IFM Investors, MFS International, Perpetual, UBS and Vanguard. Wahba added that there is an ongoing need to appoint managers that complement the fund's internal equities teams. "AustralianSuper ...

ETF industry loses $5bn

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 14 FEB 2022
... Hedged (Synthetic) at 17.8%. The BetaShares Australia 200 ETF saw the greatest inflows for the month, followed by the Vanguard Australian Shares Index ETF and the Vanguard MSCI Index International Shares ETF. In comparison, while it remains one of the ...

Advisers can step up to retirement planning boom

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2022
... Quality of Advice Review. Advisers are said to be in the empathy business as much as in the finance business, he told a Vanguard event. "In the real world, though, retirement is a transformative time of life and also a great opportunity for financial ...

Magellan fund loses $1bn in five months

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 FEB 2022
... since June 2020 when it had 80% of FUM. This is due to the rapid rise of actively managed hybrid ETPs, Rainmaker found. Vanguard leads the ETP market with $38.3 billion, followed by BlackRock with $25.5 billion. BetaShares comes in third with $22.2 billion ...

Vanguard appoints new chief information officer

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2022
Vanguard Australia has announced the appointment of Aman Sahani as its new Asia Pacific chief information officer. In this role, Sahani will oversee Vanguard's Asia Pacific 200 strong IT division and lead the team. Sahani spent the last six years in ...

Vanguard move a win for SSGA, BlackRock

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 4 FEB 2022
Vanguard's decision to hand back institutional mandates has been good news for State Street Global Advisors, BlackRock and several other managers, analysis shows. In October 2020 Vanguard announced it would hand back mandates to super funds ahead of ...