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Morningstar upgrades four, downgrades 10

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020
... Bond Fund, and UBS Diversified Fixed Income Fund. Meantime, Dimensional's Five Year Diversified Fixed Interest fund, iShares Core Global Corporate Bond ETF, Payden Global Income Opportunities, and Vanguard International Credit Securities Index Fund ...

Advisers bolt to cash, gold

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020
... the latest BetaShares Australian ETF Review. Interestingly there was almost the same figure flowing out of the BlackRock iShares Core S&P/ASX 200 ETF and the State Street SPRDR S&P/ASX 200 month at $159 million and $131 million respectively. The total ...

First virtual MAX Awards go live tonight

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2020
... Advisors, Allan Gray, Praemium, TAL, BT and Zurich, as well as representatives from Media Lab, Legg Mason, BlackRock's iShares, GSFM and Fundamental Media. The full list of finalists can be found here, and you can watch the virtual ceremony from ...

Global ETF leaders push for reform

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020
... exchange traded product issuers have partnered to petition for classification reform, in a move which BlackRock head of iShares Australasia Christian Obrist said would help to improve transparency for investors. In a proposal to US stock exchanges in ...

2020 MAX Awards finalists named

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
... Year (wholesale and institutional). Vying for the title this year is UBS Asset Management, Allianz Retire+, State Street Global Advisors, Franklin Templeton Investments and RARE Infrastructure. Meanwhile, BMO Global Asset Management's Michael Angwin ...

Pandemic puts pressure on ETF spreads

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2020
... more difficult. That's according to ETF Securities co-head of sales Kanish Chugh, who pointed to global equity vehicle iShares S&P 500 ETF as an example. The spread on this product increased to 15 basis points in March from an average spread of four ...

A decade in the dust

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... Depression both advanced economies and emerging market and developing economies are in recession." Despite this, BlackRock iShares head of APAC investment strategy, ETF and index investing Thomas Taw said investment inflows into China had soared. "Following ...

What's next for income-focused funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... past few years have seen the growth of passive ETFs that chase higher dividends according to a set of rules. Vanguard, iShares and ETFSecurities offer funds in the space. Wilkinson said dividend-focused ETFs may decide they have to refine their rules ...

BlackRock appoints Asia Pacific ETF head

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2020
BlackRock has hired from Citi to appoint a new head of iShares for Asia Pacific. Rimmo Jolly is currently Citi's regional head of ETF and index sales and business development for Asia Pacific and Japan. In his new role, Jolly will be tasked with growing ...

Low rates support some bond managers: Report

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2020
... Vanguard's International Credit Securities Index (Hedged) ETF is among the bottom funds, along with products from CFS and iShares. Finally, when it comes to multi-strategy income, Kapstream Absolute Return Income is sitting at the top, ahead of the ...