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ACDC to power new battery ETF

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2018
A new ETF from ETF Securities will provide investors with exposure to companies directly involved in battery technologies and lithium. The Battery Technology and Lithium ETF is the latest addition to ETF Securities' Future Present range. It tracks the ...

Vanguard launches ESG funds

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2018
... the managed fund options would provide investors both hedged and unhedged options. Vanguard said its new equities fund and ETF would provide exposure to more than 1600 securities listed in major developed countries, with a management expense ratio of ...

Smart beta on the rise: Van Eck

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2018
The use of smart beta has increased in recent years with latest research showing 57% of financial professionals are implementing these strategies in client portfolios. According to Van Eck's annual smart beta survey, 68% of financial professionals are ...

BetaShares wins insto allocation

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2018
A freshly-minted BetaShares ETF has snagged a major investment from an Australian institutional investor, swelling to about four times its size in a single day. In an investment executed last week, an unnamed institutional investor placed $114 million ...

Macquarie Wrap adds Vanguard SMAs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2018
Vanguard's range of diversified managed accounts strategies are now available via Macquarie's Wrap platform. Targeting the growing number of financial advisers adopting managed accounts, Vanguard ETFs will predominantly be used to implement the asset ...

BetaShares to launch three tech ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2018
... team of three professionals. The team was involved in developing the methodology for the BetaShares Asia Technology Tigers ETF (ASIA), which invests in the 50 largest tech companies in Asia ex Japan, including names like Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu. "It ...

Former advice specialist hired as Zenith analyst

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2018
Zenith Investment Partners has hired a former associate financial adviser as an investment analyst, continuing a hiring trend it started earlier this year. James Damicoucas spent two-and-a-half years as an associate financial adviser at Perpetual Private ...

ASIC identifies potential risks in ETP market

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018
... regular basis. The regulator singled out two areas of focus for future: active ETFs and retail consumers' experience with ETF products. ETF industry in Australia has swelled rapidly, and currently sits at about $40 billion, as at July end according to ...

Investment platform CFO steps down

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018
... appointment will enable SWF to reallocate resources to focus of the growth of the business, with the imminent launch of SWF's ETF and the newly established SWF advisory portal; together with greater flexibility for SelfWealth as it continues that ...

VanEck adds two to Australian team

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2018
VanEck has made hires for its investment and operations team to support its Australian ETF business. Cameron McCormack is joining VanEck's investment team as a senior associate. He previously worked at Pacific Life Re Australia as a pricing and ...