ETFs – Page 2 – The Inside Adviser

Wealth management platform space is ripe for tech disruption

March 29, 2021 by Ishan Dan

The shift towards non-aligned platform advice forced structural change within wealth management in a way never seen before. Findings from the Banking Royal Commission helped drive the push towards independent platforms...

ASX closes higher as Australian dollar drops

March 24, 2021 by The Inside Adviser

ASX powers ahead, lower bond yields, records broken at Premier (ASX:PMV) The ASX200 (ASX:XJO) delivered once again, pushing higher with falling bond yields and a finally weakening currency, which is now under...

What are High Conviction funds?

March 18, 2021 by Ishan Dan

Often used to describe a particular type of investment style - for example, the High Conviction Equities Fund - "conviction" is all the rage in equity markets today. This type of strategy usually holds...

Competition hots up among ratings firms

March 15, 2021 by Greg Bright

Managed funds research and ratings start-up Foresight Analytics is expanding further in the ultra-competitive retail and advised investment sector through the acquisition of the analytics business of Australia Ratings Group....

What’s in a name?

March 9, 2021 by Staff Writer

News broke this week that one of Vanguard's popular ESG or Environment, Social and Governance-focused strategies may not have been as true to label as one would expect. According to...

BetaShares eyes offshore growth with new partner

March 9, 2021 by Greg Bright

BetaShares has taken on a new cornerstone investor, TA Associates, as it enters its second decade in business, with founding partner Mirae Asset Management cashing in its chips. TA is...

Crypto the next big trend in financial planning

March 1, 2021 by Contributor

There are a plethora of reasons for advisers to dismiss Bitcoin and other crypto assets as a worthy holding in clients' investment portfolios. For one, they're for the most part...

JP Morgan launches sustainable global macro strategy

February 8, 2021 by Ishan Dan

It has been a busy start to the year for JP Morgan Asset Management (JPMAM), with the recently launched Global Macro Sustainable Fund seeking to capitalise on a profound structural...

The stage is set for an evolution in trading

February 4, 2021 by Giselle Roux

The attack on short sold stocks in the past week has caused a frenzy of comments on the participation of so-called retail investors. Where this will end up is anyone's...

Looking under the ETF bonnet

December 7, 2020 by Giselle Roux

Machines and the Mind Around 70%-80% of equity market volume is driven by algorithmic trading. There are a host of actors in this process, from hedge funds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs)...

Finding the next Amazon

December 7, 2020 by The Inside Adviser

Every fund manager talks about finding the next Amazon, Facebook, or Google, but very few are able to do it consistently. In fact, a broad majority of global equity strategies...

Disruptive innovation delivered a 90% return for ARK

November 19, 2020 by Drew Meredith

The Dr Cathie Wood-led ARK Investment Management is facing a different kind of pressure as 2020 draws to a close. According to Bloomberg, ARK's ETF distributor, Resolute Investment Managers, is...

Impact investment in demand, but short supply

November 15, 2020 by Contributor

By now, people know what impact investing is and according to RIAA, impact assets under management in Australia have grown to about $19B at the start of 2020; up 250%...

Managers queue to catch the quoted funds wave

November 15, 2020 by Greg Bright

Loftus Peak, Australian global equities boutique, has become the second manager to launch a "quoted managed fund." This looks set to become a strong trend in retail distribution, with a...

Beyond the horizon – listed infrastructure in a mid-pandemic economy

November 13, 2020 by The Inside Adviser

2020 will go down as a wild ride in the markets for a multitude of reasons. Heightened volatility and drawdown events have put capital preservation, absolute return, and downside management...

For investing, as in racing, always hedge your bets

November 4, 2020 by Giselle Roux

There have been plenty of reasons to visit a bookie recently, given the Melbourne Cup Carnival and the US election. Financial commentators provide a rather dull set of probabilities on...

Shining brightly – The true value of gold and how to use it

November 2, 2020 by Contributor

Gold has an almost mythical quality to it but assessing its true investment value doesn't need to be shrouded in mystery. Some investors may still shy away from an asset...

A game-changer for managed funds?

October 8, 2020 by Greg Bright

The launch early in February this year of Australia's first unlisted fund to be quoted on the ASX, by Magellan group and its administrator, Mainstream, took a while to sink...

Playing Tesla’s battery day via ETFs

September 30, 2020 by James Dunn

One of the great investment success stories of the last 25 years has been the exchange-traded fund (ETF), which got under way in the early 1990s as a vehicle offering...

If you can’t beat them, buy them

September 25, 2020 by Drew Meredith

While the active versus passive debate rolls on, and on, across the investment world, some active managers have gone to the 'dark side', at least partially, by adding more quantitative...