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Royal Commission to boost ETFs: VanEck

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018
... conflicts of interest within vertically-integrated institutions. An increasing number of financial advisers have been using ETFs to diversify client portfolios since the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms, according to VanEck managing director ...

Fintech launches active trading platform with no monthly fees

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2018
... operate with similar capabilities to what large institutions have," Smoker said. SaxoTraderPRO allows trading of stocks, bonds, ETFs CFDs, futures, options, forex and other asset classes on compatible multi-screen Windows and Mac computers. Traders will ...

Vanguard launches two active factor ETFs

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2018
... Vanguard will list its first active exchange-traded funds for Australian investors on the ASX tomorrow. The first of the two new ETFs is Global Value Equity (ASX: VVLU), and invests in global equities with value characteristics. The second, the Global ...

Investor education key to healthy ETF market: SPDR

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2018
... be down 15%," he said. Ross argued that's where SPDR and other providers come in. "It's up to us to educate consumers of ETFs about these issues," he said. "We don't offer leveraged or inverse ETFs anywhere around the globe, nor any ETFs that are predominantly ...

BetaShares corners market with super-cheap Aussie equities ETF

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018
... indicates that the "sweet spot" for ETF fees is around 40 to 49 basis points - this range represents the largest number of ETFs on the market, which also generate the largest volume of revenue for their distributors. In the 12 months to December 2017 ...

Contango restructure sees reduced headcount

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2018
... significant growth and we've done a lot of work in the retail market, reducing our cost base. We're planning to launch two new ETFs in the fixed-interest space in the next 12 months as well as an exchange-traded managed fund (ETMF) via California-based ...

Aussie ETFs attracted $339 million in February: Betashares

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2018
... month. BetaShares, the fourth-biggest player in Australia's ETF pool, joins Vanguard in saying investors gravitated towards ETFs in February's market slowdown despite popular beliefs that ETFs don't fare well in market corrections. ETF trading volumes ...

SMSFs continue to break with tradition

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2018
... those stocks outside the ASX200 has in fact increased," he said. To December 31 2017, SMSFs were increasingly doing this via ETFs, which provide low-cost exposure to international markets and sectors otherwise difficult to access. However, while overall ...

SMSFs ceding ground to direct investors in the ETF market

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2018
... total market declined from 38% to 33% in 2017. This is reflected by the decreasing proportion of respondents investing in ETFs via SMSFs relative to the time they chose to invest: 33% of those who invested more than five years ago did so through SMSFs ...

Morningstar fuels fund ratings with AI

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2018
... research analyst would typically assign analyst ratings - gold, silver, bronze, neutral and negative - and going forward ETFs and funds analysed will receive one rating and not both, Morningstar said. Analyst ratings are assigned to about 1800 open-end ...