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Spaceship launches US investing service

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2023
Spaceship users now invest as little as $10 in a range of US-listed ETFs and stocks. Launched yesterday, Spaceship's new US investing service is available to Spaceship Voyager customers for just $2 extra a month, who can execute unlimited trades with ...

Colonial First State previews new MA offering

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2023
Colonial First State (CFS) has revealed its new managed accounts offering, to be made available on the newly launched Edge platform. The Accelerate Series has been designed in response to feedback from financial advisers, helping them meet best interest ...

Are indexes the next target for greenwashing investigations?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 8 AUG 2023
... relevant guidance, which is closer to what happened with this Vanguard product." The Vanguard product (both an Australian dollar hedged and a NZ dollar hedged version are rated by RIAA) first achieved RIAA Certification in 2018 and then in 2020, at which ...

New CFS platform at the cutting Edge: Quirk

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 1 AUG 2023
... global leader in wealth management platforms. "FNZ deal with 100,000 advisers and manage over $2 trillion in Australian dollar assets, so partnering with such a major scale provider, we thought was critical to CFS Edges' success, because of the ongoing ...

MySuper products bounce back: Data

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2023
... performance of equities in June. The ASX closed out the financial year with a total return of 14%, while in Australian dollar terms the S&P 500 did 23%. The former delivered seven positive months in the year, while the latter delivered nine. Note, the ...

VanEck reduces management fees on ETFs

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 19 JUN 2023
The investment manager will drop fees to 0.20% for its VanEck FTSE Global Infrastructure Hedged ETF (IFRA) and VanEck FTSE International Property Hedged ETF (REIT). IFRA is currently priced at 0.52% p.a. and REIT is currently 0.43% p.a. but will be ...

Nanuk launches currency hedged unit class

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY 2023
... help ensure that investors benefit from any investment gains in other markets irrespective of movements in the Australian dollar." The fund's currency hedging strategy primarily involved mitigating direct foreign currency exposure that arises from holding ...

VanEck launches US bond ETF

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 15 MAY 2023
... liquid US Treasury Securities offers a potential hedge against systemic or market episodes. "With TBIL being Australian dollar unhedged and the Australian dollar considered as a 'risk on' currency, in times of uncertainty the Australian dollar ...

Industry funds' illiquid assets scrutinised

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAY 2023
... period," she said. "During 2022, we witnessed a strong sell-off in both listed equities and bonds, and a weak Australian dollar. This selloff did not impact the asset prices of private markets to the same degree and, as a result, it's likely that ...

Aussie shares to continue outperformance: Oliver

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 2 FEB 2023
... underperformance since 2009 is likely to be over. His reasons include mean reversion, a new super cycle in commodities, the Australian dollar no longer being expensive, stronger growth potential, relatively high dividends, less aggressive monetary tightening ...