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VanEck opens Perth office

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2021
... operations as demand for its products grow. "Our new hires will work to strengthen investors' understanding of smart beta and active strategies, which form a core part of VanEck's ASX ETF range and provide targeted investment solutions," Neiron ...

IOOF awards $23bn passive mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2021
... score across the following criteria: portfolio construction, implementation and risk management, business management, smart beta capabilities and ESG credentials," he said. "Further, Invesco has the necessary skill, experience, resources and scale to ...

Investment Leadership Awards finalists named

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 17 MAY 2021
... deviation and sum of negative returns. The asset classes included are Australian equities, international equities, smart beta, property, infrastructure, fixed interest, multi-asset, real returns and ESG. The awards also recognise excellence across subsectors ...

VanEck launches new ETFs

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2021
... However, Neiron said, not all the companies are desirable from an investment perspective. "QSML is an international equity smart beta strategy of approximately 150 international small companies selected by MSCI based on its quality factor, offering investors ...

Goldman Sachs launches robo-adviser

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2021
... capitalisation. Impact invests in companies that meet certain environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria, while Smart Beta scores companies on fundamental and technical factors of performance. "We'll recommend a diverse mix of stock and bond ...

Advisers shift to ETFs from active managers: VanEck

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020
... over concerns about the cost and performance of actively managed funds, according to VanEck. VanEck's fifth annual smart beta survey revealed 87% of advisers use ETFs in client portfolios, up from 83% in 2016. Additionally, almost half of the advisers ...

VanEck to launch four new ETFs

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2020
... interactive entertainment and the fragmentation of the digital media landscape." Similarly, VanEck's HLTH will be the only smart beta healthcare ETF listed on the ASX. HLTH will invest in 50 fundamentally sound and attractive value companies in the global ...

How competitive is the Australian ETF industry?

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2020
... March 2019 and March 2020. Going by asset classes, Australian equities were the most competitive while active ETFs and smart beta products had the most concentration.

State Street model portfolios land on BT Panorama

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... "A key factor that differentiates State Street Risk-Based ETF Model Portfolios from competitors is the inclusion of smart beta in the global allocation, which supports additional capital growth while maintaining traditional risk tolerances. "In other ...

No new ASX 200 names this quarter

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2020
... simpler of these, can continue to replicate the strategy and just move forward their own rebalancing dates, while the smart beta ETFs may have some more trouble. "It may be more tricky for any ETF not tracking a market capitalisation weighted index (like ...