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Most traded stocks, ETFs of 2019 revealed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020
... proved the most popular amongst Saxo clients. That was followed by the Vanguard US Total Market Shares Index ETF and Vanguard FTSE Emergind Markets Shares ETF. In fourth place, iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF and rounding out the top five was the SPDR S&P ...

VanEck changes ETF portfolios

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2019
... portfolios have been changed, removing the SPDR Dow Jones Global Real Estate Fund. This has been replaced with the VanEck Vectors FTSE International Property (Hedged) ETF (ASX: REIT). "REIT tracks the FTSE EPRA Nareit Developed ex Australia Rental Index ...

ETFS Capital backs indexing startup

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2019
... that are more nimble that the traditional ones. It was set up by Gareth Parks, who was one of the four founding staff of FTSE and Tobias Sproehnle who was previously Thomson Reuters Benchmarks' chief executive. Its services include index strategy and ...

BetaShares launches FTSE 100 ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2019
... It started trading on the ASX this morning with the ticker code F100. The passive ETF will track the market cap weighted FTSE 100 Index. The management costs are 0.45%. The fund's assets are denominated in British Pounds and hence, the AUD value ...

Beyond the China A shares hype

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2019
... China A large cap stocks from 5% to 10%, and will further increase its exposure in 5% increments over August and November. FTSE Russell completed the first phase of its inclusion in June in which 5.5% of its emerging market index comprised China A shares. ...

Sovereign investors go back to fixed income

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2019
... value or momentum fell below sovereign expectations, driving a move towards multi-factor approaches. This is similar to a FTSE Russell study from last month which found multi-factor smart beta approaches were proving to be the most popular with asset ...

Chief economist update: Surveys back All Ords climb

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2019
... intraday all-time high on August 20, it's returned only 17.5% over the same period. The Euro Stoxx-50 index is up 15.8%; the FTSE-100 gained 10% and the Nikkei-225 index rose by a mere 6.2%. Aside from the optimism brought on by the (near) bull market ...

Smart beta now mainstream for instos

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2019
... institutional asset owners are now using smart beta strategies in their portfolios, according to a new survey of 178 instos by FTSE Russell. Adoption has doubled what it was five years ago when roughly three in 10 used smart beta. Last year saw a rise ...

Vanguard launches ETF, appoints new lead

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2019
... VGMF) aims to outperform the international equities market using a multi-factor approach. It will take its picks from the FTSE Developed All-Cap Index which includes large, small and mid-caps in developed markers and Russell 3000 Index which includes ...

Chief economist update: Woe to the world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2019
... time that: "The S&P 500 index is up 12.6% this year to date; the Stoxx-50 index is up 12.8%; the All Ords is up 9.7%; the FTSE-100 is up 7.4%; the Nikkei-225 is up 7.2% and China's Shanghai composite index is up 21.2%. "Bond yields have been falling ...