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Morningstar creates chief ratings officer role

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2020
... recent role was global director of manager research, overseeing the global manager-research team and ratings-setting on funds, ETFs and other managed investments. Lee Davidson has been promoted to lead global manager of research and quantitative research ...

Cash no longer king

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2020
Flows into international and domestic equity ETFs have surged as investors move away from cash, according to Vanguard and the ASX. International equity ETFs had nearly $2 billion of inflows in the September quarter, followed by domestic equity ETFs ...

Vanguard launches new ESG offerings

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2020
... fees, expenses and tax. The new products bring the total number of fund offerings for Vanguard Australia to 83, including 30 ETFs. "Investors want funds that are consistent with their values without having to make the trade off with performance or their ...

Superhero sets eyes on managed accounts

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2020
... comes as the new entrant continues to shake-up the investment arena, just yesterday announcing it will drop brokerage fees on ETFs to zero; making it the cheapest trading platform in the market. "Investors are extremely fee conscious these days and fees ...

ESG ETF demand rises: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2020
Wealth managers are increasingly using ETFs to incorporate ethical and responsible investing, flagging that this strategy will eventually substitute the actively-managed part of their portfolios. More than half (55%) of the global 191 institutional ...

ETF Securities chief exits

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2020
... Securities has 19 products listed on the ASX. About $2.1 billion (or two thirds) of its total assets are from just one fund, the ETFS Physical Gold (ASX: GOLD). At June end, it was the sixth-largest ETF issuer locally and had grown its total assets by ...

Vanguard to cull institutional mandates

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2020
... appointed the chair of the SMSF Association in October 2019 but moved to deputy chair in February. In exchange traded funds (ETFs), Vanguard holds a 31% share with roughly $31 billion of the total $70.7 billion of assets in ASX-listed ETFs, according ...

ETFs undermine product comparison: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020
... Clements, found one of the many gripes consumers face in a saturated market is that naming conventions can be misleading. Many ETFs have the same name - but invest differently and follow different indices. BlackRock's US Aggregate Bond ETF and Charles ...

Advisers shift to ETFs from active managers: VanEck

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020
Financial advisers are increasingly using exchange traded funds (ETFs) 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 ...

Morningstar ratings tally for global equities

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2020
Morningstar's latest cycle of reviews for global equities managers has resulted in 12 upgrades and 21 downgrades, as it takes into account its new analyst rating framework from last year. This round of reviews includes Morningstar changes to analyst ...