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iShares calls for ETF disclosure

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 17 OCT 2011
More transparency and disclosure is needed from exchange traded funds providers, according to iShares, which has released a paper calling for global regulatory standards. iShares, a subsidiary of BlackRock, believes that a global standard classification ...

iShares appoints new director

RACHEL DAVIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2011
... joined the iShares Product and Capital Markets team as director, supporting the distribution of iShares exchange traded funds (ETFs). Howie will assist with the development of technical and product-specific content and management of iShares broker/dealer ...

ASIC tightens advice advertising

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2011
... affect everybody, when asked he did note Capital Guarantee Products, Contracts For Difference and synthetic Exchange Traded Funds had gain some attention due to confusion of consumers. "It is the retail derivative area where products are complex and ...

Customisable, original, scalable, networked: the next advice paradigm

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2011
... "Nowhere will the shift be more important than the financial services industry." Citing the development of Exchange Traded Funds, they said the new product class is wiping out billions of dollars of reliable revenue streams for custodians and integrated ...

Market dislocation shifts share trade to dark pools, ETFs

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2011
Trading volumes spiked at dark pools and exchange traded funds after record volatility hit global equity and bond markets last week. Sam Macqueen, director of block trading venue provider Liquidnet Australia, said the daily average volume of trade in ...

Money moves from listed managed investments to ETFs

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
... total market capitalisation by 11.9% from $19 billion in July 2010 to $17 billion in July 2011. By contrast, exchange traded funds and commodities saw massive fund inflows in percentage terms. Exchange traded commodities increased their July 2010 market ...

Advisers turn from managed funds to ETFs: BetaShares

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011
The rise of exchange traded funds (ETF) is putting pressure on active fund managers and attracting financial advisers, according to a new ETF report released today. The BetaShares/Investment Trends ETF Report predicts that ETF investor numbers will ...

ETFs report wafer thin trading volumes

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2011
Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) ASX market capitalisation is up 44 per cent in the last 12 months to $4.7 billion but their trading volumes are still microscopically thin. Figures just released in the ASX Listed Managed Investments monthly update for May ...

Instos move into ETFs as sector surges

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
... Exchange (ASX) said yesterday, with institutional investors moving in. Over the year to April, the number of exchange traded funds doubled from 31 in April 2010 to 45 in April this year, an increase of 45.2 per cent. Total market capitalisation rose ...

Direct investors dump managed funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
... disintermediation is leading to some unexpected results as the ASX survey found the proportion of Australians using Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) to have more than halved from 7 to just 3 per cent between 2008 and 2010. This ETF result however runs counter ...