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Global ETF industry hits record high

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2019
... highest inflows, with 45% of total inflows, however significantly less than the 61% seen in the previous quarter. Equity ETFs maintained around 38% share of inflows, while the largest changed in terms of investor preference was commodities, whose share ...

Equity Trustees wins Colonial mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2019
Equity Trustees has cracked $100 billion in funds under supervision, after striking an agreement with Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society effective October 1. Equity Trustees Limited is taking over as the trustee of $10.5 billion of CMLA's assets. ...

Challenger appoints funds management boss

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2019
... international markets. Nick is well known for his strategic thinking and commercial acumen having successfully led top tier global equity and multi-asset businesses," Howes said in a statement. "During this period the funds management business has grown ...

Vanguard launches three new active funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2019
... Baillie Gifford which has run the strategy since 2005. Vanguard's second launch, the Vanguard Active Emerging Markets Equity Fund, will be managed by Wellington Management. It will hold over 100 emerging markets shares with a 0.88% p.a. fee and similar ...

Fossil fuel holdings cost BlackRock investors $90bn

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2019
... calculated BlackRock's loss amounted to US$2.3 billion. BlackRock responded, stating that the large majority of its equity holdings - including those cited in this report - are held through index-based ETFs and other index products, which track the ...

BetaShares launches new active ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2019
... BetaShares' fourth active ETF together. The two have previously launched active ETFs for fixed income (ASX: BNDS ) and equity strategies (ASX: EINC, RINC ).

Boutique fund manager appoints chief executive

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2019
... as a strategic advisor to a family office. Prior to this he was BNY Mellon's global head of distribution and private equity firm Arcapita's global head of institutional fund distribution. Prior to this, he held senior executive positions at PIMCO ...

VanEck launches hedged version of $520m ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2019
... of the same index tracked by the $516 million QUAL. QUAL's index determines quality using three scores: high return on equity, stable year-on-year earnings growth and low leverage. "As more money flows offshore, the hedging decision, which can depend ...

MSCI ups China A-shares, managers respond

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2019
... could rise: VanEck VanEck believes the inclusion could hoist mainland Chinese shares as more money flows into mainland equity market. "China is the world's second largest economy and its share market is the second biggest after the US. MSCI's ...

Arming human traders for big-ticket trades

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2019
... UBS's institutional trading desk in a relationship manager role. Chris Gardener joined Liquidnet after covering at UBS equity sales, trading, execution and client relationship management with a focus on global sales trading for REITs.