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Investment industry urged to put society first

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2013
A major power shift from intermediaries such as fund managers and investment banks to fiduciaries including Australian superannuation funds is gathering pace in the global financial services sector, according to the CFA Institute's Asia Pacific managing ...

AltaVista upgrades Portfolio Builder tech tool

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2013
Exchange Traded Fund research group AltaVista Research has upgraded its Portfolio Builder that enables advisors to blend their own ETF Model Portfolios. Explaining how the system could be used, AltaVista said: "while the number of ETFs in Australia ...

Market Vectors lists first Aussie banking ETF

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2013
Market Vectors ETFs has listed four new Australian exchange traded funds (ETFs) on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), including the first Australian banking and small cap resources ETFs. The listing brings the total number of exchange traded ...

Praemium to host 5 more BetaShares ETFs

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2013
The Praemium SMA platform has agreed to include five more BetaShares exchange traded funds that focus on domestic equities strategies, currencies and commodities. The new inclusions take to 10 the number of BetaShares ETFs the Praemium SMA will host. ...

Most EM currencies bounce back

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2013
Emerging market currencies bouncing back so quickly after the US Fed reversed its signals that it would soon start tapering its economic stimulus confirms how far these markets have matured since the GFC. In May through June this year US Fed chairman ...

Aussie ETF industry comes of age

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2013
New record highs in the trading value in the Australian exchange traded fund (ETF) market show that the industry has come of age with investors increasingly using ETFs in sophisticated ways, according to BetaShares managing director Alec Vynokur. BetaShares ...

Club Plus climbs aboard DI bandwagon

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2013
Industry fund Club Plus Super is the latest superannuation fund to launch a direct investment option, which may stave off the flow of members with high account balances setting up self-managed super funds (SMSFs). The new Direct Investment Option will ...

Aussie ETF use reaches new level of sophistication

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2013
The sophisticated ways in which Australian advisers are using exchange traded funds belies the relative immaturity of the local market, according to BlackRock's global ETF business iShares. BlackRock director and iShares specialist Jonathan Howie said ...

ETF market closes in on $9 billion milestone

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2013
Australia's exchange traded product (ETP) market has expanded rapidly in 2013, reaching a record $8.8 billion in assets according to the latest ASX Funds Monthly Update. The report shows Australia's ETP industry, has grown by 61% in the 12 months to ...

Australian ETF industry soars to reach $8 billion

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 AUG 2013
The Australian exchange traded fund (ETF) industry has swelled to a record high, breaching the $8 billion mark for the first time, according to data from ETF provider BetaShares. The total market capitalisation of the low cost index products traded ...