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Vanguard expands sales team

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2009
... Victoria along with the opening of our WA base." Vanguard also recently announced its plans to introduce Exchange Traded Funds to Australian investors, with further news of the product line-up to be released to market soon.

Vanguard launches ETFs in Oz

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2009
Vanguard Investments Australia has announced it will launch Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) for Australian investors. The Vanguard Group is already a leading manager of ETFs in the US. Vanguard entered the US ETF market in 2001 and at the end of 2008 ...

Doors open for new ETFs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
Barclays' decision to place its leading exchange traded funds (ETFs) business, iShares, up for sale has the potential to change the sector's dynamic and lower the barrier to new entrants. The company has released a brief statement overnight confirming ...

iShares adds three

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2009
Barclays Global Investors has introduced three new exchange traded funds (ETFs) covering telco, health and consumer brands to give investors the chance to tap "defensive" investment sectors. According to BGI-owned iShares, the new ETFs lets Australians ...

Planners tune in to ETFs

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2009
Over the next decade, exchange traded funds (ETFs) could put management fees of many Aussie fund managers under pressure - marking ETFs as the next boom market for fee-for-service planners. Bruce Baker, director of Queensland-based Puzzle Financial ...

ETF assets to reach $1.6 trillion

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2009
Exchange traded funds (ETF) assets are set to eclipse the $1.6 trillion mark in the next two years - $500 billion more than its current assets, new research by Strategic Insight shows. Assets in global exchange traded funds raked in more than $1.1 trillion ...

Investors turn to ETFs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2009
... reported that US investors withdrew US$128.7 billion out of managed funds but invested US$133 billion into exchange traded funds (ETFs) in the first 11 months of 2008. ETF provider Barclays Global Investors (BGI) expects last year's trend to continue ...

Investors gain precious metal alternative

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2008
... sales and marketing, said financial planners would not notice any differences between trading an ETCs and exchange traded funds (ETFs). He said, similar to exchange traded funds (ETFs), ETCs are open-ended securities that can be created and redeemed ...

Credit Agricole enters ETF market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2008
Credit Agricole has become the next big name to launch a suite of exchange traded funds (ETFs), providing a suite ETFs to the French market and plans to have $20 billion in assets under management in the product in just over three years. Credit Agricole ...

Lonsec approves iShares

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2008
Barclays Global Investors (BGI) iShares Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) received an 'approved' rating from Lonsec. The Lonsec report notes iShares ETFs represent an efficient, liquid and cost effective means for investors to gain index exposure to different ...