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S&P to remove ASX healthcare firm from index

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2018
... include major Australian asset managers, will be removed from the ASX 200 pending acquisition by a US company. S&P Dow Jones Indices said Sirtex Medical will be removed from the index subject to shareholder and court approval of the acquisition by NYSE-listed ...

Investor education key to healthy ETF market: SPDR

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2018
... of futures contracts or derivatives. But we do have significant education available on all those points." S&P Dow Jones Indices chair David Blitzer added that he wasn't a fan of leveraged ETFs, even though "people want to do them." "There is obviously ...

REITs the saving grace on SPIVA scorecard

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2018
... Australian funds underperformed their respective benchmarks across most categories in 2017, according to the S&P Dow Jones Indices Versus Active Fuds (SPIVA) Australia scorecard. S&P evaluated returns from 109 Australian bond funds, 378 international ...

Happier New Year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 JAN 2018
... Year but a happier one. The first week of 2018 tally shows all four major Wall Street equity indices - S&P 500 (+2.6%), Dow Jones Industrials (+2.3%), Nasdaq Composite (+3.4%), Russell 2000 (+1.6%) -- surged to new record highs; so has the FTSE-100 index ...

Taxing times

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2017
... news, exemplified by the Australian Financial Review's (AFR) 10 November report that: "Wall Street slumped with the Dow Jones shedding over 200 points after Bill Cassidy, a member of the Senate Finance Committee, said that the Senate tax proposal will ...

SPIVA again scores active versus passive debate

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2017
The widely-used SPIVA scorecard, prepared semi-annually by S&P Dow Jones Indices, once again suggests the majority of Australian active managers underperformed their respective benchmarks over the 12 months to 30 June 2017. Describing itself as the ...

On the road to normal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 SEP 2017
... crisis hit. Speaking of boom, the US equity markets are having one of its own with all major equity indices - S&P 500; Dow Jones Industrials; Nasdaq composite; Russell 2000 - at or near record highs, indicating confidence in the US economic outlook. ...

Setting the active record straight

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 18 SEP 2017
... Standard at the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees Super Investment Conference, Hobson cited the S&P Dow Jones Indices Versus Active Funds (SPIVA) Scorecard as one that can be misinterpreted. She said the scorecard, which measures the performance ...

Powered by low-flation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 JUL 2017
Wall Street's on a tear with all of the equity market's benchmark indices - S&P 500; Dow Jones; Nasdaq; Russell 2000 - hitting record highs last week. The most proximate cause is, of course, the strong June quarter earnings results. According to Factset ...

S&P measures green bond performance

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 13 MAR 2017
S&P Dow Jones Indices recently launched a green bond index licensed to VanEck for an exchange-traded fund. The S&P Green Bond Select Index measures the performance of bonds that finance environmentally-friendly projects and fulfil a strict set of requirements ...