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Janus Henderson bolsters retail sales team

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2019
... across Victoria and Tasmania." Earlier this year, the firm tapped former BlackRock global head of institutional clients for iShares Suzanne Cain, as its new global head of distribution. Cain joined Janus Henderson on May 20 and now sits on its executive ...

Charles Schwab reverses out of Australia again

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 19 AUG 2019
... range of options and was more cost competitive. This pitch was in direct contrast to Aussie ETF giants such as BlackRock iShares which in the past year delisted five US-domiciled ETF products and re-domiciled 14 ETFs locally, with the aim of cutting ...

State Street loses biggest ETF title

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2019
... $4.06 billion at July end. Australian equities ETFs have seen fierce price competition recently. Vanguard and BlackRock iShares both dropped the fees on their offerings in the segment, following BetaShares which launched the cheapest exposure last year. ...

BlackRock partners with $23bn super fund

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2019
... this year. Benchmarked to a customised Bloomberg Barclays MSCI Global Aggregate SRI Select ex-fossil fuels index, the iShares ESG Global Bond Index Fund is designed to allow investors to gain exposure to global fixed income securities while excluding ...

Pinnacle kicks off race to zero-fee ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2019
... respect to FUM at March end: the then $3.5 billion Vanguard Australia Shares Index ETF, $3.6 billion SPDR 200 fund and iShares Global 100. And so, perhaps a more effective driver for lower fees is competition. One of the outliers, the Vanguard Australia ...

ETFs cross $50bn, fixed income leads

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2019
... while currency ETFs bled about $55 million. Vanguard and BetaShares commanded 60% of the net inflows. Adding BlackRock iShares, the three's market share of the net inflows was 80%. Top performing products for the half were BetaShares geared equities ...

BlackRock cuts fees on Aussie shares ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2019
... the fees on its S&P/ASX 200 exchange-traded fund following a pricing review, as competition heats up in the sector. The iShares Core S&P/ASX 200 ETF, which trades on the exchange with ticker IOZ, pushed down the fees to 0.09% p.a. from the 0.15%. "This ...

Former Vanguard broking and wealth expert joins Bell Direct

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2019
A former iShares and Vanguard broking and private client adviser expert has joined Bell Direct as head of sales and marketing. Tim Sparks was appointed in the newly-created position, responsible for leading the sales and marketing function across Bell ...

New global sales head at Janus Henderson

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2019
... oversee global marketing and lead client service. At BlackRock, Cain was the US and global head of institutional clients for iShares for two years. Prior to that, Cain was the head of institutional client group and head of structured credit and structured ...

SMSF darlings revealed

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2019
... last six months of 2018. State Street's SPDR ASX 200 (ASX: STW) was the most traded ETF in the period, followed by iShares S&P 500 (ASX: IVV), Vanguard Australian shares (ASX: VAS), BetaShares NASDAQ 100 (ASX:NDQ) and Vanguard US total market (ASX ...