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BetaShares defends Dividend Harvester ETF after critical report

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2019
BetaShares has been forced to defend it's Dividend Harvester Fund after it failed to achieve an "investable" rating. The fund was the subject of a critical Lonsec report which criticised the "capital erosion" suffered by the product. Returns from ...

Kapstream cuts fees on flagship fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2019
... cuts were driven by changes in the macro landscape driven by low rates, increased competition and its impending launch of an ETF vehicle for the strategy. "The fee cut is a reflection of the evolving landscape. The fund was launched and priced 12 years ...

Vanguard launches three new active funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2019
Vanguard has launched two new actively-managed, low cost equities funds managed by external managers, as it kicks off a lineup of active funds in Australia. The company has offered factor-based funds in Australia for roughly the past two years but this ...

Suitability of managed accounts grows

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2019
... model portfolios available as at June 2019. About 4% of respondents to the survey said there are too many model portfolio and ETF choices available, however four times that number said there are far too many managed fund options.

VanEck restructures three ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2019
... three ETFs to cut out US tax forms for investors and to introduce dividend reinvestment plans. VanEck Vectors Gold Miners ETF (GDX), VanEck Vectors Morningstar Wide Moat ETF (MOAT) and VanEck Vectors China AMC CSI 300 ETF (CETF) currently trade on the ...

Pendal hires State Street exec

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2019
... business strategy and leading corporate development. Prior to this, he was co-head of State Street Global Advisors' global ETF business, responsible for the North America and Latin America regions. Before State Street, Good spent seven years at BlackRock ...

Managed funds versus the ASX 200

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2019
Aussie equities managers had a hard time beating the S&P/ASX 200 Accumulation index in the year to June and the underperformance gap has widened significantly over the past four years, according to new Rainmaker research. Just one in 10 wholesale managed ...

Charles Schwab reverses out of Australia again

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 19 AUG 2019
... investors saying they had a wider range of options and was more cost competitive. This pitch was in direct contrast to Aussie ETF giants such as BlackRock iShares which in the past year delisted five US-domiciled ETF products and re-domiciled 14 ETFs ...

State Street ETF in franking credit kerfuffle

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2019
... FY19 in the September, December and March distributions. However, by the time the final quarter rolled around in June, the ETF had run out of its tax office-approved limit to pass on any franking credits to investors. State Street has now applied to ...

What is holding Aussie robo advisers back?

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2019
Higher base fees, more complex fee structures and fewer investment options could be holding Australian robo advisers back from reaching the scale their American counterparts have, according to new research from Rainmaker. Australia has six main companies ...