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New CIO for Vanguard Asia-Pac

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012
... global CIO Tim Buckley said: "Greg has considerable experience in managing more than 25 bond index fund portfolios and 14 ETFs. He will continue to ensure Vanguard's offerings to investors are low cost, transparent, true to label, and uphold our tradition ...

Vanguard launches Fixed Interest Index ETFs

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2012
... well as short term savings vehicles, investing in high quality fixed income assets is all about lowering and managing risk. "ETFs provide investors with an easy, low cost way to access this asset class," he added. "Vanguard ETFs are established as a ...

Russell ups risk in equity ETFs

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2012
Russell Investments has dumped five defensive stocks in its latest rebalance of its value index, anticipating growth in riskier assets. Russell reconstitutes the weightings to stocks in its Russell Australia High Value and Australia High Dividend indices ...

Zenith upgrades State Street ETFs

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2012
... draw on knowledge and expertise of their global capabilities is a key differentiator for the firm in designing and managing ETFs in the Australian market place. The rating agency believes that management fees for the funds are highly competitive when ...

Annuities lead US advice requests

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012
... Ethier. Other popularly requested product classes for advice were individual retirement accounts which ranked second and ETFs which ranked fifth. Clients looking specifically for fee-based products ranked ninth and hedge funds ranked 11th. The report ...

AustSuper adds hedge IEq option

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012
... still limited. But managed accounts and low-cost retail funds offering direct share trading - allowing fund members to trade ETFs and gain exposure to global share markets - argue that such a strategy provides low-cost access to almost unlimited investment ...

ETFs hit $6bn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2012
... Vanguard with 9%, and BetaShares and Russell with 3% each. Other providers control only 14% of the market, showing how handling ETFs is a sophisticated service that only a few providers can master, let alone draw sustainable scale and profit from. Australian ...

Vanguard makes index switch

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
... time and therefore reduce costs for investors. "It's really about delivering value to investors in the index funds and the ETFs through lower costs over the next few years." "Vanguard's obviously very focused on reducing costs over time - we think the ...

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 ...

Indexing reaches all time high

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2012
... with market penetration likewise hitting a record 16.6%. Changeable capital markets and the push to Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), has helped the growth, although indexing is still overwhelmingly a wholesale play, despite managers of indexed assets accessing ...