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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 ...

Indexing warning as ETFs surge

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011
Global flows into exchange traded funds/exchange traded products (ETFs/ETPs) soared to US$41.4 billion in the first quarter of 2011. According to BlackRock, Q1 inflows were more than double that seen in the equivalent period in 2010. Global ETF assets ...

BlackRock provides advisers with super SMA

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
... paid to another. The SMA includes professionally managed portfolios including BlackRock, iShares and SPDR exchange traded funds, Ausbil Dexia, BT, Fortis, Perennial and UBS. BNP Paribas Australian Hybrid and Fixed Income offerings and Lonsec Balanced ...

Synthetic ETFs set to grow

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2011
Synthetic Exchange Traded Funds make up just 14 per cent of total global ETF assets, but based on European experience this ratio is likely to increase considerably. In Europe, half of ETF assets are already synthetic, a proportion far ahead of the estimated ...

Asgard upgrades insurance for FOFA

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2011
... business plan, including a more aggressive strategy towards providing direct equities, model portfolios and Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) to its platform. "What we are seeing in response to Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms are advisers diversifying ...

SMSFs increase reliance on ETFs

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
SMSFs are expected to continue raising their allocation into exchange traded funds (ETFs) as a way to ensure low-cost, long-term returns. Almost 50 per cent of financial advisers are now using or evaluating ETFs within their investment portfolios, research ...