Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 161 - 170 of 284 results for %22ISH%22

FS has you covered in 2017

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 22 DEC 2017
Financial Standard attended all the major industry conferences this year to keep you informed. Chief Economists Forum It may well be Rainmaker's 25th anniversary in 2017, but this year also marked the anniversary of several historic and global economic ...

Willis Towers Watson bolsters Sydney investment team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 NOV 2017
Willis Towers Watson is expanding its portfolio management capabilities, appointing a senior portfolio specialist and two analysts to its Sydney team. Former BlackRock director Oliver Berry, who was responsible for institutional sales for iShares in ...

BlackRock boosts Australian distribution footprint

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 12 OCT 2017
BlackRock has made three senior hires to strengthen its client business team in Australia. Scarlett Dorney will join the Sydney office as a director of client business at the end of October, responsible for leading the multi-manager and institutional ...

Advice, ETFs and SMAs form powerful combination

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 AUG 2017
Advice businesses seeking greater scalability stand to significantly benefit from the use of exchange-traded funds in separately managed accounts. Speaking at the Financial Standard ETF Forum in Melbourne yesterday, head of iShares Jon Howie told delegates ...

Last chance: Financial Standard ETF Forum

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 17 JUL 2017
The Financial Standard Best Practice Forum on Exchange Traded Funds is a fortnight away and there's limited space left for financial advisers and other industry professionals. Following a successful inaugural event in Sydney last year, the 2017 Best ...

BlackRock hires new executives

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUL 2017
BlackRock is expanding its digital and distribution strategies with two executive appointments. Katie Petering is the new head of asset manager sales for BlackRock's exchange-traded funds business iShares. She will report to head of iShares Australia ...

BlackRock lists cash ETFs

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2017
BlackRock has listed a further two iShares ETFs in Australia and both are aligned to cash. Benchmarked to the S&P/ASX Bank Bill Index, the iShares Core Cash ETF (ASX: BILL) and the iShares Enhanced Cash ETF (ASX: ISEC) both provide access to a diversified ...

VanEck partners to launch ETF model portfolios

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2017
VanEck will launch a range of model portfolios to advisers using exchange-traded funds, in partnership with an investment researcher. Using Lonsec's portfolio construction research, the VanEck ETF Model Portfolio series comprises balanced, growth and ...

Instos unclear about ETF value

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAR 2017
Australian institutional investors are in the middle of an education process when it comes to figuring out what an ETF is, how it works, and how it will benefit them, iShares head of fixed income strategy Matthew Tucker said. Retail and wealth investors ...

iShares receives 'recommended' rating

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2017
Research house Lonsec has awarded a 'recommended' rating to two iShares Edge Smart Beta Minimum Volatility exchange traded funds. The ratings assigned to iShares Edge MSCI Australia Minimum Volatility ETF and the iShares Edge MSCI World Minimum Volatility ...