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SSgA hits $45m in 24 hours

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2010
... yield ETF has amassed over $45 million in FUM from investors a day after the strategy was listed on the ASX. Rob Goodlad, SSgA senior managing director for Australia, confirmed the firm's SPDR MSCI Australia Select High Dividend Yield ETF take-up was ...

SSgA ETF targets high yields

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2010
State Street Global Advisors has launched an Australian ETF aimed at investors looking for high yield. SSgA has introduced the SPDR MSCI Australia Select High Dividend Yield ETF, which seeks to provide investors with high and sustainable dividends. ...

ARIA chief rejoins State Street

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
... Pacific. Crafter announced last month that he was leaving ARIA after joining the fund in May 2008. In the newly created role at SSgA, he will oversee the investment teams in Sydney, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Singapore. "Lochiel brings a wealth of experience ...

SSgA hits $3bn in ETFs

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 10 AUG 2010
... retail sector, according to a press statement. FUM for the entire sector have risen by 70 per cent over the same period. SSgA's biggest ETF is the SPDR S&P/ASX 200 (STW), which along with the SPDR S&P/ASX 50 (SFY), was launched in September 2001. The ...

Crafter resigns as ARIA CEO

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 3 AUG 2010
... Information, Crafter was previously chief investment officer, Asia Pacific for State Street Global Advisors. Prior to joining SSgA, Crafter spent three years at Westpac Investment Management as investment director, asset allocation. In that role he was ...

SSgA cuts securities lending on fixed income funds

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2010
State Street Global Advisors has discontinued its securities lending program for a range of UCITS fixed income funds. SSgA, a prominent securities lender, announced on the Irish Stock Exchange last week that it had stopped its securities lending program ...

State Street win $10 billion in mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUN 2010
State Street Global Advisors has won $10 billion in passive equity mandates from QSuper. SSgA announced yesterday the funds will be invested in an Australian Equities Index mandate, an International Equities Index mandate and a Global REIT Index mandate. ...

SSgA wins S&P licence for ETFs

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2010
... market. It tracks the prices of Australia's top 200 listed companies by market capitalisation. The license with S&P means SSgA is the only company in Australia with the right to offer an ETF product replicating Australia's most popular benchmark index ...

SSgA appoints equities head

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
... developed market equity portfolios, and reports to Arlene Rockefeller, chief investment officer for global equities. He joins SSgA most recently from Oppenheimer Funds, where he was a senior portfolio manager and director of quantitative research leading ...

AMIST awards Vanguard mandate

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2010
... first time the super fund has invested with an index manager - aside from using index provider State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) to provide a quantitative overlay (to manage tracking error) over the fund's investments. Livanas said that the initial ...