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Special Report: Hitting new ETF goals

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... bond ETFs to gain four major benefits: liquidity, transparency, low fees and diversification. This is according to S&P Dow Jones Indices director of fixed income product management, Jason Giordano, who likes to remind investors that bonds don't trade ...

Three down one to go, then another three in 2019

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2018
... Fed's announcement. The S&P 500 soared by as high as 0.9% from its previous day's close to a new record high and the Dow Jones Industrials index by 0.8% (just 0.5% short of the record peak hit on 21 September this year). And why shouldn't ...

S&P Dow Jones partners with pension fund giant

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2018
Index provider S&P Dow Jones Indices has partnered with an international pension fund that will benchmark its ESG investment strategy against two newly launched indices. The Japanese Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) is using two of S&P's new ...

Glut of underperformance in managed funds: Research

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2018
... benchmark does not have any transaction costs - it is a hypothetical calculation." InvestSMART's findings follow an S&P Dow Jones report from two weeks ago that found similar results. S&P found that over the 10-year period ending 30 June 2018, almost ...

New S&P indices factor in future carbon price risks

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2018
S&P Dow Jones has launched 12 new indices that will adjust valuations of companies included in some of its established indices, to account for the future impact of carbon prices on stock prices. The S&P carbon price risk adjusted indices will be constructed ...

S&P to remove ASX healthcare firm from index

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2018
... which include major Australian asset managers, will be removed from the ASX 200 pending acquisition by a US company. S&P Dow Jones Indices said Sirtex Medical will be removed from the index subject to shareholder and court approval of the acquisition ...

Investor education key to healthy ETF market: SPDR

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2018
... comprised of futures contracts or derivatives. But we do have significant education available on all those points." S&P Dow Jones Indices chair David Blitzer added that he wasn't a fan of leveraged ETFs, even though "people want to do them." "There is ...

REITs the saving grace on SPIVA scorecard

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2018
... of Australian funds underperformed their respective benchmarks across most categories in 2017, according to the S&P Dow Jones Indices Versus Active Fuds (SPIVA) Australia scorecard. S&P evaluated returns from 109 Australian bond funds, 378 international ...

Robo-adviser crashes during Wall Street selloff

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2018
... "had no impact on trading." The platform's co-founder, Andy Rachleff, later commented on the 1600-point plunge in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, noting that "many of our clients will feel incredibly unsettled as a result." However, he added that Wealthfront's ...

Unlisted infrastructure assets hit record high

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2018
... and farmland fund managers, representing 2% of unlisted natural resources capital. According to figures from the S&P Dow Jones, agriculture stocks are performing strongly, with the S&P/NZX Farmers Weekly Agriculture Equity Index returning 74.85% in the ...