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Planners advising ETFs double

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2010
... the sector. New figures from the Investment Trends December 2009 ETF Report has found that 38,000 investors are now using ETFs - double that of November 2008. The report, which surveyed 7,400 investors and 780 planners, show 30 per cent of planners now ...

Lonsec approves high income ETF

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2010
... personnel and research. Amanda Skelly, director of product development at Russell, said the firm would roll out a series of ETFs during the year.

SSgA wins S&P licence for ETFs

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2010
... State Street Global has acquired an exclusive license from Standard & Poor's to list and trade SPDR Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) based on the S&P/ASX 200. The S&P/ASX 200 is the primary gauge for the Australian equity market. It tracks the prices of ...

All that glitters are gold ETFs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUN 2010
... enormous holding has raised eyebrows across the commodities trading market about whether or not the company could redeem ETFs if investors suddenly sold their holdings. "With all the people buying gold ETFs... there's a fear that these ETFs may not be ...

Report points to low cost fund future

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2010
... half of them had more than 50 per cent of their clients' assets in fee-based programs. As result, exchange traded funds (ETFs) and individual securities have become far more popular among financial advisers and for corporate retirement plans, low cost ...

IOOF adds ETFs to Pursuit

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAY 2010
IOOF's platform, Pursuit Select, has added a number of domestic and international Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) by State Street and BlackRock to its investment menu. "The growth in ETFs in recent times, coupled with demand from our advisers, led to the ...

Purvis attracts SMA mandate with new venture

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAY 2010
... Balanced, Growth and High Growth. "[OneVue's SMA platform] ability to implement proactive strategies including direct shares, ETFs and other Exchange Traded Assets such as REITs and hybrids is essential to our success because the Proactive Portfolios ...

Russell launches dividend ETF

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2010
... competitively compared to managed funds but also recognise there's a lot of insight in the index so it [costs more] than other ETFs out there. It's designed for a specific need rather than just a broad market cap," said Skelly. James Polisson, managing ...

Farmland ripe for the picking

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2010
... pension funds, [but] these have yet to translate into significant land deals," she said. Commodity exchange traded funds (ETFs) are also growing in popularity, with net assets in the top 15 agricultural commodity ETFs and exchange traded notes totalled ...

RBC Dexia wins Aii custody mandate

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
... won a mandate from Australian Indexed Investments (Aii) to provide custody for their newly launched Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). Aii is a member of the Euro Finance Group. Jim Socratous, managing director at Aii, said they chose the firm because of ...