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Leveraged ETF risk laid bare

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
... investment conference when he showed the risks of US-style synthetic ETFs at a panel session in Sydney on Friday. Tom Keenan of iShares Australia and Graham Smith of State Street Global Advisers had just finished talking through the strengths of ETFs ...

HSBC targets planners with Asian wide product

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
... (HSCEI), the Taiwan TAIEX Index, the KOSPI200 (Korea), the MSCI Singapore Free Index, the SET 50 Index (Thailand) and the iShares MSCI India Fund. The iShares MSCI India Fund is an exchange traded fund (ETF) that aims to replicate the MSCI India Index. ...

ETF provider soothes market over risk issues

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2011
Exchange traded fund provider iShares has moved to reassure the market that Australian ETFs are not risky in the wake of warnings from global authorities about transparency and leverage issues. The Financial Stability Board, an international watch-dog ...

BlackRock provides advisers with super SMA

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
... one and dividend income to be 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 ...

iShares appoints vice presidents to new roles

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2011
iShares, the ETF business of BlackRock Investment Management has made senior appointments to its institutional distribution and capital markets teams. Campbell MacPherson joins as vice president and business development manager, while Gonzalo Biassini ...

BlackRock iShares breaks $1bn barrier

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2011
BlackRock has announced that its exchange traded fund business, iShares, has reached $1 billion assets under management. IShares claims to be the world's leading provider of ETFs after launching its first suite of international ETFs in Australia in ...

iShares increases ETF range

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2011
Leading exchange-traded funds (ETFs) issuer iShares has launched four new products, designed to enable investors to gain diversified exposure to the Australian sharemarket through a single trade on the ASX. The latest offerings in BlackRock's iShares ...

Westpac to launch more structured products for SMSFs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 1 FEB 2011
... S&P/ASX 50 shares, including BHP Billiton, Woolworths and Commonwealth Bank, as well as on the SPDR S&P/ASX 200 (STW) and iShares S&P/ASX 20 (ILC) exchange-traded funds.

Investors direct $42bn to iShares

RESULTS ANNOUNCEMENT  |  THURSDAY, 27 JAN 2011
... and Barclays Global Investors, the US-based company reported strong growth in its exchange traded funds business, with iShares enjoying more than $42 billion of net inflows for the year. According to BlackRock's latest results, iShares had a solid year ...

Instos lead charge into ETFs

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 13 DEC 2010
Four new iShares exchange traded funds (ETFs) generated $140 million in funds under management in just two trading sessions, but contrary to popular belief, institutions - not retail investors - are leading the charge into the products. iShares launched ...