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Last chance: Financial Standard ETF Forum

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 17 JUL 2017
The Financial Standard Best Practice Forum on Exchange Traded Funds is a fortnight away and there's limited space left for financial advisers and other industry professionals. Following a successful inaugural event in Sydney last year, the 2017 Best ...

ANZ Wealth adds SMAs to platform

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY 2017
... introduce 13 new Separately Managed Accounts (SMAs) to professionally managed portfolios of direct equities and exchange traded funds. ANZ Wealth head of wrap Dean Faglioni said: "This latest enhancement to our wrap platform responds to investor and ...

ETFs are coming-of-age

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2017
It took Australian exchange traded funds 10 years to reach $15 billion in assets under management, but only two to reach $25 billion. With the industry projected to hit $30 to 33 billion in assets under management, alongside a stream of new products ...

iShares receives 'recommended' rating

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2017
... Research house Lonsec has awarded a 'recommended' rating to two iShares Edge Smart Beta Minimum Volatility exchange traded funds. The ratings assigned to iShares Edge MSCI Australia Minimum Volatility ETF and the iShares Edge MSCI World Minimum Volatility ...

Vanguard introduces low-cost active funds

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2017
... 1.23%*. Vanguard Australia manages more than $115 billion of assets for investors across 43 managed funds, 17 exchange traded funds and a range of separately managed accounts. *Source: Vanguard analysis of Morningstar data, as at 31 December 2016.

First-mover advantage key to smart beta ETFs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 9 JAN 2017
Investments in smart beta equity exchange traded funds (ETFs) and exchange traded products (ETPs) reached a new record-high of $690 billion globally, and the product incumbents continue to gain ground, a report shows. The findings were part of the latest ...

The changing role of ETF model portfolios

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 31 OCT 2016
... briefing in Sydney, Parkin highlighted the increasing number of advisers and investment groups delegating exchange traded funds (ETFs) and ETF package solutions to global companies with expertise in asset allocation, like SSGA. "Australian advisers and ...

ETF market capitalisation continues to grow

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2016
Exchange traded funds have continued to experience strong growth in 2016, with the sector reaching market capitalisation of $24.1 billion to the year 30 September 2016, up 24.7% on the previous year. According to Zenith Investment Partners' latest sector ...

Adviser ETF survey winners announced

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2016
... winners of two cash voucher prizes as it reveals the results of an extensive survey into advisers' use of exchange traded funds. The survey, which was designed to help Financial Standard understand how ETFs are impacting the marketplace to enable us ...

UK IFAs increasingly outsourcing to DFMs

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2016
... Interestingly every DFM that responded to Cerulli's 2016 survey reported an investment in passive strategies. Exchange traded funds were the most popular, with 80% of DFMs reporting some allocation, 55% said they invest in index tracking funds and only ...