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No plan to cut out advisers: SPDR chair

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2019
State Street's global chair for its ETF business says it will continue to be anchored to adviser-led distribution in Australia and not seek to launch a direct-to-consumer push. Visiting Australia last week, SPDR Global chair Jim Ross said it was ...

Morningstar now an ETF issuer

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2019
Morningstar has listed an active ETF that will invest in global equities, as it enters the segment as an issuer. The Morningstar International Shares Active ETF started trading on the ASX yesterday under the ticker code MSTR. It will invest in an unlisted ...

Magellan active ETFs retain Zenith ratings

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2019
Active ETFs from Magelllan have retained their highly recommended ratings from Zenith, even as ASIC conducts a review into internal market making. Of the 203 ETFs available in Australia, Zenith Investment Partners rates 74 products. Only three of them ...

ASX faces challenge on ETF stronghold

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 15 OCT 2019
ASX-listed exchange traded funds have raised close to $56 billion but now its lesser-known rival Chi-X is ready to start listing ETFs, with a Kapstream fund kicking off on it today. Chi-X started off trading small amounts of equities in Australia in ...

Milestone ETF Rule passed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2019
Global regulators are taking notice of the maturation of exchange-traded funds, with the US Securities and Exchange Commission adopting a new rule to modernise their regulation. Twenty seven years on from the launch of the first ETF, the SEC has voted ...

Challenger appoints funds management boss

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2019
Challenger has appointed a new chief executive for funds management after Ian Saines announced his intention to retire from the role in June. The job is going to Nick Hamilton, who has led Challenger's multi-boutique business Fidante Partners since ...

Kapstream cuts fees on flagship fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2019
... income segment is also far more competitive with a broader range of products and managers." Kapstream is set to list an active ETF on the Chi-X, which Bloom said is expected in early October, pending the greenlight from the stock exchange. "We decided ...

Platinum funds leak over $100m

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2019
... International Healthcare Fund, Platinum Technology Fund and the Platinum Global Fund. The Asia and international fund also have active ETF versions where the fund's responsible entity acts as the market maker instead of an external entity filing ...

ASIC clamps down on opaque active ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2019
The corporate regulator is set to ask ASX and Chi-X to stop admitting new active ETFs that use internal market making as it mulls a review, Financial Standard can reveal. ASIC has asked all market operators to not launch any new active ETFs with internal ...

ETFs cross $50bn, fixed income leads

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2019
Aussie investors were keen on fixed income ETFs but cooled off on currency and commodities ETFs in the first half, as strong inflows and buoyant markets pushed the total FUM over the $50 billion mark. ETFs attracted $4.4 billion in net inflows in the ...