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State Street model portfolios land on BT Panorama

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... products allow financial advisers to choose a portfolio of ETFs which cover a range of asset classes, sectors and product issuers thanks to their open architecture investment structure. The recently released Investment Trends 2020 Managed Accounts Report ...

COVID-19 will bite into credit ratings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
... around $8.1 trillion to cover financing needs. We now expect another $4 trillion will be added-with the distribution of issuers remaining more or less the same as before the pandemic." The report charts the distribution of the "contributions to global ...

Morningstar acquires global ESG ratings house

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020
... will be available to individual investors, advisers, private equity firms, investment managers, plan sponsors, and credit issuers, it said. Sustainalytics chief executive Michael Jantzi said the acquisition would amplify the firm's insights to investors ...

The domino effect: Oil falls, markets follow

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2020
... "Companies in the upstream of the energy supply chain will face the greatest pressure," he said. "The US high yield market and issuers from the energy sector will quickly experience dislocation - credit spreads have already widened considerably. "Until ...

New ASIC guidance on active ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... provided additional guidance on non-transparent active ETFs, which were subject to a review last year. ASIC is asking ETF issuers only rely on publicly available information or a reference price as the input for market making quotes. It has also asked ...

ASIC provides relief around early super access advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2020
... until further notice. ASIC will not request client information or client files from advisers, and will not ask product issuers for data. That said, ASIC said it still expects product issuers to turn off their arrangements as soon as possible and by no ...

Chief economist update: Oil gush

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020
... oil prices had the opposite effect. The 'Financial Times' noted back then that energy companies are the biggest issuers of junk bonds, accounting for more than 11% of the US high-yield market - catching out many investors seeking higher yields. ...

No new ASX 200 names this quarter

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2020
... construction. But essentially it's the same process," Higgins said. He said delaying the rebalancing will allow ETF issuers to save rebalancing costs by lowering their turnover. "Applying an index rebalance in an extremely volatile market would be ...

Whistleblowers rewarded US $570k

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2020
... complaint alleges that between 2015 and 2018, Keener engaged in the business of purchasing convertible notes from penny stock issuers, converting the notes into shares of stock at a large discount from the market price, and selling those newly issued ...

Mutual fund assets lose $1.3 trillion

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2020
... elimination of non-transactional-fee (NTF) platforms as a positive for ETFs, saying it levels the playing field and have given issuers more options for promoting products. "One consequence of the shift from NTF platforms will be the greater use of indirect ...