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Climate threat pushes Aussies to sustainability

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2020
... be aligned with their personal values," it said. According to Morningstar, 35 new sustainability investment retail mutual funds were launched last year. Cerulli analyst Siau Kean Yung said managers should refrain from "window dressing" to attract and ...

Global ETF industry hits record high

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2019
... striking in the data is the continued investor preference towards ETFs, both active and passive, with ETFs outselling mutual funds three-to-one in the September quarter." BetaShares said continuing the trend from previous quarters; the fixed income asset ...

Envestnet founder tragically killed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2019
... car accident alongside his wife, Hanover Hill Wealth Advisors founder Mary Miller. A former managing director of mutual funds at Nuveen Investments, Bergman founded Envestnet in 1999 on the premise that technology could change the financial advice industry. ...

Milestone ETF Rule passed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2019
... share class of a multi-class fund; or active ETFs. To date, ETFs in the US have been regulated in the same way as mutual funds and were offered exemptive relief by the SEC, whereby the issuer would lodge an application justifying why rules applied to ...

Fossil fuel holdings cost BlackRock investors $90bn

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2019
... and impact solutions. "These solutions include US$32 billon AUM in products - ranging from green bonds, to ETFs and mutual funds, to infrastructure funds - that provide clients with innovative options to participate in and benefit from the transition ...

Vale John Bogle

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2019
... Vanguard board in 1999, Bogle created the Bogle Financial Markets Resource Centre in 1999, to analyse issues affecting mutual funds and financial markets through speeches, public articles and books, of which sold more than one million copies. Bogle served ...

Joint venture to set new ETF standard

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2019
... the world's largest ETF and index manager to RBC Global Asset Management's line-up of index ETFs and index mutual funds," RBC GAM president Doug Coulter said. While the two firms remain separate legal entities, they will employ a unified distribution ...

Raiz expands offshore

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 DEC 2018
... light to distribute products across south-east Asia. The ASX-listed firm announced it secured a licence to distribute mutual funds via subsidiary PT Raiz Invest Indonesia. Managing director George Lucas said Raiz has progressed in modifying its platform ...

Why indexing is big business

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2018
... portfolio construction and rebalancing, and asset allocation. Index-linked investment products, such as ETFs and mutual funds, commonly pay MSCI a fee based on the value of the investment product's assets. Asset-based fees make up a significant portion ...

Are ETFs really the next smartphones?

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2018
... inception to US$135 million ($189m). He hinted this evolution is also driven by market demand. More than 56% of assets in mutual funds are in fixed income, but only 15% of ETF assets are in the asset class. More than 50% of the average European investor's ...