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Zenith upgrades State Street ETFs

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2012
... bid/ask spreads which make for excellent, frictionless transaction efficiency," said Zenith in the update note. Meanwhile the SPDR S&P/ASX 50 Fund, SPDR S&P/ASX 200 Listed Property Fund and the SPDR MSCI Australia Select High Yield Dividend Fund have ...

ETFs hit $6bn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2012
... make up a small but noteworthy 7% of the market. The largest ETFs by traded volume during September were the StateStreet SPDR S&P/ASX 200, followed by the GOLD-ETFS Physical Gold ETF, the IVV iShares S&P 500, the BetaShares US Dollar ETF and the BetaShares ...

SSgA appoints head of capital markets

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2012
State Street Global Advisors has appointed Jacqueline Pang as head of capital markets of SPDR ETFs to its Hong Kong office. SPDR ETFs is a family of exchange traded funds that provide investors with the flexibility to select investments that are precisely ...

SSgA launches two fixed income ETFs

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2012
... will offer investors easier access to the Australian bond market. The new ETFs are the State Street Global Advisors' (SSgA) SPDR S&P(R)/ASX Australian Bond Fund and the SPDR S&P/ASX Australian Government Bond Fund. "These new ETFs aim to give retail ...

Skelly to head State Street Aus ETFs

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2012
... represents an expansion of Australian ETF operations, with Skelly reporting to Frank Henze, SSgA's Hong Kong-based head of SPDR ETFs for Asia Pacific. Skelly spent nearly 10 years at Russell Investments, most recently leading business strategy, sales ...

New ETF labels need global consistency

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2012
... While welcoming the regulator's moves to improve understanding and increase transparency and education, Frank Henze, head of SPDR ETFs for Asia Pacific at SSgA said naming conventions for managed investment vehicles should be compatible across regimes ...

Instos missing ETF options

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2012
... ETF offering in response to investor demand to improve access to a wide range of asset classes," said Frank Henze, head of SPDR ETFs for Asia-Pacific at SSgA. The news may further contribute to the lacklustre enthusiasm for ETFs from Australian instos ...

Record month for ETPs

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 23 FEB 2012
... financial crisis in 2008 have caused a significant shift in investors' appetite for risk," said Frank Henze, SSgA's head of SPDR ETFs for Asia Pacific. State Street believed actively managed ETPs could begin to gain traction, despite being traditionally ...

ETF provider wants to expand asset class range

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2011
... people to lose sight of the fact that they are heavily regulated. "ETFs at their core are simple and transparent," he said. SPDR ETFs do not offer any synthetic ETFs at present. Ebner said the fear that index ETFs would spell the end for active fund ...

SSGA says ETF growth means plenty for all providers

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2011
... after Vanguard and Blackrock iShares jumped into the market, now estimated to be worth $5 billion. But Frank Henze, head of SPDR ETFs in Asia Pacific for State Street Global Advisers (SSGA), said there was so much future growth in the market that SSGA ...