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Market set for a fairly flat open

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015
The Australian market is set for a fairly flat open, after US and European markets lost ground on worries about a potential Greek exit from the euro zone. At 0655 AEST on Friday, the June share price index futures contract was down three points at 5,732. ...

Van Eck launches small cap ETF

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2015
Van Eck has launched Australia's first small cap exchange traded fund (ETF) that tracks the index using a smart beta approach. The Market Vectors Small Cap Dividend Payers ETF (MVS) includes only the most liquid ASX listed small companies and only those ...

ANZ enters fast growing ETF market

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2015
... S&P/ASX100 ETF (ZOZI), which includes Australia's best performing 50 large cap companies and 50 mid-caps. ANZ also launched two smart beta funds; the S&P/ASX300 High Yield Plus ETF (ZYAU), which "looks at total share buybacks of each ASX300 company over ...

Smart beta here to stay, research confirms

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
Smart beta is present in over half of the world's portfolios, with professional investors increasingly combining multiple smart beta strategies, new global research found. The FTSE Russell Smart Beta: 2015 Global Survey Findings from Asset Owners survey ...

Low-cost super awash with inflows

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
... their superannuation in direct low-fee retail products over the last 12 months. Particularly so at BT Super for Life and ANZ Smart Choice with both recording funds under management growth of more than $1.5 billion in the 12 months to December 2014. Data ...

HSBC pitches low vol strategy to instos

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
... global asset management's head of global equities Angus Parker said. HSBC's Global Low Vol strategy sits within the manager's smart beta range of funds and aims to build a portfolio that avoids volatility and holds assets for the long term. The managers ...

IFAs to benefit from budget

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
The 2015 budget's $5.5 billion jobs and small business package will benefit independent financial advice businesses, according to industry commentators. The package includes a 1.5% tax cut for all small business (incorporated or not), a 5% tax discount ...

Retirees can increase their withdrawal rate: Milliman

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2015
Actuarial consulting firm Milliman believes there are retirees who could comfortably increase their standard withdrawal rate by at least 50% per annum. A recent Milliman paper, 'The 6% Rule', aims to answer how retirees can provide for themselves and ...

Link Group moves up in Melbourne

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
... be Tower 4 of Collins Square, one of five interconnected commercial towers designed by Melbourne architectural firm Bates Smart. Due for completion in mid-2016, Link Group has also secured naming rights to the building, which will bring together Melbourne-based ...

End heavy weighting in US equities: Tempo AM

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
... market had been the top market performer in only three years: 2011, 2013 and 2014. The trend is reflected in Tempo's fund, a smart beta strategy that aims to outperform the MSCI index by investing equal parts of the portfolio in eight different equity ...