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Vanguard lowers fees

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2019
... Index Fund will see the largest reduction of five basis points, moving to 0.24% a year. The Vanguard Australian Shares Index ETF is the second largest ETF on the Australian share market and will now see a fee reduction of four basis points - that brings ...

Finalists unveiled for FS Investment Leadership Awards

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
... Fund AUSTRALIAN EQUITIES - INDEX iShares WS Australian Equity Index Fund SPDR S&P/ASX 200 Vanguard Australian Shares Index ETF AUSTRALIAN EQUITIES - SMALL CAP Aberdeen Standard Australian Small Comp Fund Eley Griffiths Group Small Companies Fund Macquarie ...

VanEck drops fees on ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
... $17 million in the three and a half years since. The index which it tracks has taken a beating, having lost 9.8% in Australian Dollar terms since last year. VanEck head of Asia Pacific Arian Neiron said Aussie investors were slow in putting money in ...

Special Report: Hitting new ETF goals

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... ETFs. We think we can do better." Michalakis says that over the long term, its managers have achieved "good alpha" for Australian and global shares and bonds, and there's been no need to incorporate ETFs. Every year, Statewide tests the case for ...

Two new ETFs on the block

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018
... China A-shares directly, through the RQFII (Renminbi Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor) licence. "CNEW is an Australian ETF industry first and with one trade on ASX, investors can access companies driving growth in China's New Economy," Neiron ...

ETFs now at $41.5 billion

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2018
... all Australian equities: the SPDR S&P/ASX 200 ($3.7 billion), iShares S&P 500 ($3 billion), Vanguard Australian shares index ETF ($2.9 billion). These Vanguard and iShares are also the most liquid with highest trading volumes, alongside Betashares Australian ...

Vanguard launches ESG funds

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2018
... developed countries. The fund will track the Bloomberg Barclays MSCI Global Aggregate ex SRI Exclusions Index, hedged to Australian dollars. Vanguard Australia head of product and marketing Evan Reedman said the firm understands some investors want products ...

China A-shares to shake up EM funds

KARREN VERGARA AND DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2018
... to own the biggest names in the index." SURA Asset Management regional head of equities Felipe Asenjo Wilkins, says Australian investors targeting emerging markets have generally lent towards BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) stocks as well as wider ...

SMSFs missing out on returns

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2018
... assets, according to SuperGuard360. As an example, international equities returned six percentage points higher than Australian equities over the 12 month period - an opportunity that many SMSFs missed out on. Implications for smaller SMSFs Nearly three ...

Chief economist update: China's neo-great leap forward

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2018
... its ballooning debt, or selling on news. It could be all of the above, including selling on news. According to the Australian Financial Review (AFR) "...in the weeks before the MSCI China A-share inclusion, buying accelerated, with April recording a ...