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Revisiting the active versus passive cage fight

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 11 SEP 2017
... clearly becoming distortionary. ETFs are clearly not buy-and-hold, because if you look at the largest ETF in the world, the SPDR S&P 500, it does about $16 billion a day in flow, which represents about 6% of its total value. So over the course of a few ...

Last chance: Financial Standard ETF Forum

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 17 JUL 2017
... thinking on ETFs at the one-day forum is: Jonathan Howie, director and head of iShares Australia Matthew Arnold, head of SPDR ETF strategy & research - APAC, State Street Global Advisors Arnie Selvarajah, chief executive, Bell Direct Sudir Raju, managing ...

VanEck partners to launch ETF model portfolios

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2017
... MSCI World Ex Australia Quality ETF, Vanguard MSCI Index International Shares ETF, VanEck Vectors AUstralian Property ETF, SPDR Dow Jones Global Real Estate ETF, VanEck Vectors FTSE Global Infrastructure (Hedged) ETF, iShares Composite Bond Index ETF ...

Look offshore for income: SSGA

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2017
... sated by income-oriented portfolios that invest solely in domestic assets. A new paper from State Street Global Advisors' SPDR ETF business argues that because of low interest rates and the heavy sector concentration in the local share market, it makes ...

Robo is the adviser's new best friend

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2016
... found that as many as 59% of clients had a preference for digital advice, compared to just 35% of wealth managers. Head of SPDR ETFs Australia Shaun Parkin said the research highlights a clear opportunity for advisers to adapt to reflect the changing ...

SPDR fund awarded highest Lonsec rating

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2016
State Street Global Advisors' SPDR S&P/ASX 200 Fund (STW) has been awarded a "Highly Recommended (Index)" rating from Lonsec. STW is Australia's largest exchange traded fund (ETF) with $2.8 billion AUM and is used by retail and institutional investors ...

Smart beta performs in Aussie equities

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2016
... September 2016. The most common ETPs are in international equities, Rainmaker said. The largest ETP remains State Street's SPDR 200 Fund, with $3.1 billion in assets. BetaShares recently announced its Australian High Interest Cash ETF reached $1 billion ...

The changing role of ETF model portfolios

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 31 OCT 2016
... investment products and underlying asset allocation has never been more important in achieving client goals. According to head of SPDR ETFs at State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) Australia, Shaun Parkin, financial advisers are increasingly looking for ...

Advice clients need greater clarity on fees: survey

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2016
... businesses, according to an industry survey. This is the key finding from a paper released by State Street Global Advisors' SPDR ETF business in a bid to assist advisers in finding strategies to help clients better understand the value of financial advice ...

SMSFs will shape the future of ETFs

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2016
... achieved and how the makeup of underlying funds has changed and is changing all the time." Dyall explained that after the SPDR 200 and SPDR 50 ETFs were launched in 2001, not much growth occurred until the market exploded with the launch of 14 international ...