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VanEck goes for growth with new ETF

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2025
... fees. Importantly, the growth factor is a diversifier away from the over-held companies, with NVIDIA being the only 'Magnificent 7' company currently included in the portfolio. "Minimal overlap between GWTH, the international benchmark, and factor ETFs ...

ETF Shares awards fund administration mandate

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2025
... been growing at a fast pace, with the assets in our ETFS US Quality ETF (BEST), ETFS US Technology ETF (WWW) and ETFS Magnificent 7+ ETF (HUGE) crossing $25 million within 12 weeks of launch." In May, ETF Shares became Australia's first new index ETF ...

Scientific Beta offers portfolio solution to institutional investors

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2025
... need to bridge portfolio imbalances has been highlighted in recent times as US growth stocks, led by the so-called 'Magnificent Seven', have dramatically outperformed value stocks, which has resulted in many market cap-weighted portfolios developing ...

MLC AM delivers real returns for members in FY25

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2025
... in some of the sectors and businesses that active managers found challenging." This included fuller weights to the Magnificent Seven and Australian banks. Farmer added that active managers found it a little tougher over the last 12 months given that ...

Lower interest rates conducive for bigger risk appetite, small caps

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2025
... small caps from an operational perspective. And one of the big beneficiaries of all of that, in my opinion, was the Magnificent Seven," he said. The correlation between large and small caps, which has been falling in recent years, is something he urges ...

Super funds covet more global equities: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2025
... and New Zealand Jason Steed, shows super funds are collectively underweight in US mega-cap technology stocks or the Magnificent 7. "The growth of super funds' global equities portfolios, both in absolute size and as a percentage of total invested ...

Benchmark-clinging passive investors risk meagre returns: Perpetual

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2025
... decade of disappointment. Sherwood said the past decade of US exceptionalism, marked by the extraordinary run of the Magnificent Seven, has created very strong global equity returns for passive and momentum investors, whereas the rewards from diversification ...

US financial market dominance can't last indefinitely: MSCI

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025
... true, he said, that the multiples of US mega-cap stocks - of which there are fewer than 40 companies, including the Magnificent Seven, have traded at more than twice that of emerging market and developed stocks outside the country, as of the end of 2024. ...

The top-performing (and worst) asset classes of the past year

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2025
... by a resilient economy, corporate earnings growth and a favourable interest rate environment. The dominance of the Magnificent Seven, which benefited from increased investment in AI, cloud computing, and digital transformation, was also significant ...

ETF Shares introduces three ETFs on Cboe

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2025
... stake a claim in the "highly concentrated" market. ETFS US Quality ETF (BEST), ETFS US Technology ETF (WWW) and ETFS Magnificent 7+ ETF (HUGE) all invest in US shares and charge a management fee of 0.29%. BEST invests in the largest 100 US stocks based ...