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Fixed interest ETFs to fill "massive hole"

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2011
... review and providers are poised to launch new products that will enable advisers to build a balanced portfolio using only ETFs. "It's a massive hole in the ETF industry that needs to be filled. It will be a very positive thing for investors, because ...

Russell appoints index director

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011
... as regional director, indexes, Australia and New Zealand, to meet rising clients demand for index linked products, such as ETFs. Wacher, a former head of institutional sales and product for CMC Markets, Tokyo, joins Russell's global index team and will ...

New ETFs hit booming market

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... yesterday as the popularity of the product explodes. At an investor presentation yesterday to mark the launch of three new ETFs, Vanguard said there had been a 70 per cent increase in the uptake of ETFs each year for the last three years in Australia ...

Leveraged ETF risk laid bare

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
... research Tim Murphy caused a stir at the research firm's investment conference when he showed the risks of US-style synthetic ETFs at a panel session in Sydney on Friday. Tom Keenan of iShares Australia and Graham Smith of State Street Global Advisers ...

Instos move into ETFs as sector surges

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
Investors have continued to surge into exchange traded products with ETFs increasing in number and in total market capitalisation over the past year, the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) said yesterday, with institutional investors moving in. Over the ...

Direct investors dump managed funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
... counter to the 50 per cent annual growth in ETF assets listed on the ASX, lending weight to the view that the flood of new ETFs is running ahead of demand. Another important result from the survey is that the proportion of people investing in residential ...

CFS tilts at emerging market returns

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2011
... countries covered within the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. In a move designed to set it apart from simple index-tracking funds and ETFs, the Realindex Emerging Markets Fund will screen potential companies for value parameters such as cash flow, sales ...

ETF provider soothes market over risk issues

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2011
Exchange traded fund provider iShares has moved to reassure the market that Australian ETFs are not risky in the wake of warnings from global authorities about transparency and leverage issues. The Financial Stability Board, an international watch-dog ...

Fund managers follow the herd

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
... April. The rating will remain until a complete review is done. The agency also issued a "strong" rating for two Vanguard ETFs. The first is the Vanguard US Total Market Shares Index ETF which tracks the MSCI US Broad Market Index and holds the majority ...

Indexing warning as ETFs surge

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011
Global flows into exchange traded funds/exchange traded products (ETFs/ETPs) soared to US$41.4 billion in the first quarter of 2011. According to BlackRock, Q1 inflows were more than double that seen in the equivalent period in 2010. Global ETF assets ...