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What do future asset managers look like?

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2018
... underperforming products over capacity in global asset management. In Europe alone there are 4458 domestic equity mutual funds and ETFs, yet there is 3910 companies listed on European exchanges. He also said asset managers have been reluctant to shut ...

ASIC provides relief for naked short selling

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2018
... instruments due to expire. ASIC said the new relief and modifications allow ETF market makers to make naked short sales in ETFs and managed funds in the course of making a market in units in those funds. The corporate regulator added the relief would ...

Fidelity launches active ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2018
... Fidelity's fee cuts was the increasing competition in the Australian market. Competition heats up Fidelity's foray into active ETFs comes at a time when an increasing number managers look to the ASX to launch actively-managed funds. This year ...

BlackRock outlines ETF plans for Australia

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
Actively managed ETFs are one of the things that are off the table for BlackRock's Australian business at least for now, according to the newly-appointed iShares head Christian Obrist. Obrist spoke to Financial Standard about the opportunities that ...

SMSFs seek offshore diversification

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2018
SMSF investment in international managed funds, ETFs and direct shares continues to climb as exposure to cash and term deposits drops. Latest analysis from SuperConcepts shows allocations to international investments rose by 1.3% in the 12 months to ...

Contrarian manager enters super sector

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2018
... adds the curated list of managed funds does not have all the newest entries in the market - but it does include a range of ETFs, LICs, term deposits, managed accounts and a choice of insurers for advised clients. In an August blog post, Allan Gray Australia ...

ETFs now at $41.5 billion

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2018
... from international equities - continuing the trend which has persisted since the start of the year. In the last 12 months, ETFs have grown by 34% or $10.6 billion. Net outflows for the month were limited but came largely from investors pulling money ...

SMSF cash allocation dips

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2018
... holdings. "This trend to add international shares is strong among SMSFs who often use a core portfolio of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) or managed funds for diversification, then add high conviction individual stocks such as Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix ...

The changing face of SMSFs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2018
... Apple. "This trend to add international shares is strong among SMSFs who often use a core portfolio of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) or managed funds for diversification, then add high conviction individual stocks such as Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix ...

Advisers warming up to LICs

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2018
... solution would be to calculate and publish NTA more frequently, but Clayton pointed out "that takes money". Comparing LICs to ETFs which also trade on the stock exchange, Clayton said LICs are better suited for specialised capacity-constrained strategies ...