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ETFs hit $20bn in assets under management

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2015
... no global fixed income or infrastructure ETPs listed on the ASX. The largest ETP provider in Australia is BlackRock's iShares, with $7.3 billion in funds under management. State Street follows with $4.6 billion; Vanguard holds $4.4 billion and BetaShares ...

ETF inflows defy choppy markets

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2015
... million respectively taking their totals funds to $30 million and $62 million. In international equities strategies the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF dominated with net inflows of $52 million (11%) taking its total to $456 million. "Investors must ...

ETF flows up despite market underperformance

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2015
... the largest net inflows during August, while the second largest provider, State Street, was in net outflow. BlackRock (iShares) had net inflows of $78 million or 1.1% in August. Its biggest mover from a funds flow perspective was the iShares Global 100 ...

UBS hires Zenith, BlackRock senior execs

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
... the past four years. David Redford-Bell had been the director of retail and institutional relationships at BlackRock's iShares for over nine years. Redford-Bell will be based in Queensland and as national sales manager of the wholesale sales team will ...

Executive appointment round-up

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2015
This week's top industry moves include Findex hiring a former ANZ executive, State Street and iShares boosting their sales teams and Kinetic super creating the role of head of product. - Findex appoints former ANZ exec - Findex appointed Peter Gardiner ...

Investors flee Aussie equities, turn to international

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2015
... recently-launched Vanguard MSCI Index International Shares ETF (VGS), which tracks global stocks ex-Australia. At the same time, iShares' S&P 500 ETF has become the second ETF in Australia with over $2 billion in funds under management, only after the ...

BlackRock boosts iShares sales team

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2015
BlackRock has hired two experienced sales strategists to its iShares business team in Australia to focus on adviser relations. Joshua Persky has been appointed to the newly created role of sales strategist for model portfolios and solutions. Persky ...

FEATURE: Beyond Beta

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2015
... smart beta. Dividend seekers Certain smart beta strategies have been present in the Australian market for a long time. iShares head of Australia Jon Howie explains that the most popular funds have been those chasing high dividend paying Australian equities. ...

Modi under the spotlight

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
... paper into the real economy remains the central issue and solution to the economic dilemma." Building the right product iShares director Jonathan Howie said that over the last few months BlackRock has experienced an increase of advisers demanding exposure ...

FEATURE: How ETFs are changing adviser asset allocation thinking

LAURA MILLAN, ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2015
... brought financial advisers on board." Nearly all ETF inflows (94%) remain controlled by the industry's top four issuers - iShares, Vanguard, BetaShares and State Street. Vynokur doesn't see this situation changing any time soon because these issuers ...