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iShares adds three

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2009
Barclays Global Investors has introduced three new exchange traded funds (ETFs) covering telco, health and consumer brands to give investors the chance to tap "defensive" investment sectors. According to BGI-owned iShares, the new ETFs lets Australians ...

Planners tune in to ETFs

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2009
Over the next decade, exchange traded funds (ETFs) could put management fees of many Aussie fund managers under pressure - marking ETFs as the next boom market for fee-for-service planners. Bruce Baker, director of Queensland-based Puzzle Financial ...

ETF assets to reach $1.6 trillion

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2009
... $826 billion at the end of last year, and drew a record $274 billion in net inflows last year - proving the resilience of ETFs amid a tough market environment. Meanwhile ETFs in Asia and Europe captured more than $140 billion last year. Taken together ...

Investors turn to ETFs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2009
... that US investors withdrew US$128.7 billion out of managed funds but invested US$133 billion into exchange traded funds (ETFs) in the first 11 months of 2008. ETF provider Barclays Global Investors (BGI) expects last year's trend to continue through ...

ETCs open on ASX

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
... now be traded on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). The firm announced its ETC range in November last year, includes ETFS Physical Platinum, Palladium and PM Basket, which is a basket of platinum, palladium, silver and gold. According to ETF Securities ...

Dow Jones launches Islamic ASEAN index

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2008
... to Dow Jones Indexes, the index is designed to serve as underlying for financial products such as exchange-traded funds (ETFs), or as a benchmark for actively managed mutual funds. The index has been licensed to Malaysia-based Corston-Smith Asset Management ...

Investors gain precious metal alternative

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2008
... ETF Securities launched four precious metal ETCs on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). The firm's ETC suite includes ETFS Physical Platinum, Palladium and PM Basket. Hector McNeil ETF Securities head of sales and marketing, said financial planners ...

Credit Agricole enters ETF market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2008
Credit Agricole has become the next big name to launch a suite of exchange traded funds (ETFs), providing a suite ETFs to the French market and plans to have $20 billion in assets under management in the product in just over three years. Credit Agricole ...

Lonsec approves iShares

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2008
... Investors (BGI) iShares Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) received an 'approved' rating from Lonsec. The Lonsec report notes iShares ETFs represent an efficient, liquid and cost effective means for investors to gain index exposure to different equity markets. ...

ASIC tightens short-selling rules

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2008
... Australian Stock Exchange has announced that ASX-approved market makers in ASX exchange traded options, exchange traded funds (ETFs) and warrant markets are all exempt from the shorting restrictions. Spencer Young, chief executive of top long/short fund ...