Beyond Dividends: How to boost your equity income
The hunt for yield in the investment world is intense, with dividend yields on global stock markets falling materially since early last year, and bond yields close to record lows.
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Forget Nukes, Cyber Conflict is the 21st Century Crisis
The online age has heralded a new era of warfare, which pits not only sovereign nations against one another, but also cyber criminals against businesses, individuals, and their intellectual property.
Read More3 Ways to Boost Your Investment Income
With interest rates in low single digits, yield-hungry investors face the challenge of finding investment strategies that offer a satisfactory level of income. BetaShares’ Michael Brown has some suggestions.
Read MoreThe Move to the Cloud: No Turning Back
With almost 60% of Australia currently in lockdown, and working and learning remotely, companies providing cloud computing software have been critical in allowing us some level of normality.
Read MoreStart Your Batteries: the impact of EVs on ESG
With sustainability becoming ever more crucial, Alex Cook from BetaShares explores the development and use of EVs, the outlook for the industry and its importance to the global ESG effort.
Read MoreThe Naked Truth – Returns Stripped Back
Looking at headline returns is a great way to quickly ascertain how much your portfolio has increased or decreased in a certain timeframe, but there are certain caveats to keep in mind.
Read MoreBeneath the Bonnet of the Biden Bounce
Since the U.S. presidential election on 3 November 2020, the S&P 500 has staged the best performance for a new president since Franklin D. Roosevelt. BetaShares’ Jeremy Benson has a look why.
Read MoreTurbo Charge Your Equity Income
With it getting ever harder to generate income from your portfolio, investors may need to look to other asset classes to increase yields. Tony Pattison from BetaShares has some suggestions.
Read MoreTime to Top Up on Tech?
Alex Holmes from BetaShares reflects on how the growth / value rotation has played out and in particular how U.S. growth stocks have performed so far during 2020.
Read MoreWhere Is the Money Going? (May 2021 Update)
Michael Brown from BetaShares revisits his article from last year that looked at some interesting data for total ASX ETF net flows across asset classes and updates it for 2021.
Read MoreFactoring in Factors to Your Investing
Factor investing is an investment approach that involves targeting specific drivers of return across asset classes. Isaak Walkom from BetaShares explains more on the concept.
Read MoreValue or growth? Why not both?
In the vast universe of investment approaches, perhaps the largest divide is between growth investors and value investors. But why not be both, asks Adam O’Connor from BetaShares.
Read MoreIndex Methodology Explained
As indexing strategies continue to gain significant inflows from all types of investors, the scrutiny of the methodologies underlying indices (and ETFs that aim to track them) has intensified considerably.
Read MoreA New Dawn in the Land of the Rising Sun
After some torrid years, with the TOPIX nearly halving, things finally seem to be looking up for the Japanese market. Max Minack from BetaShares explains why.
Read MoreCloud Computing – the Next Tech Revolution?
The adoption of the cloud is arguably one of the most significant business transformations we have seen since the early days of the world wide web. Blair Modica from BetaShares explains why.
Read MoreRobotics and A.I.: Defeating COVID-19
Alex Cook from BetaShares examines the role robotics and A.I. have played not only in developing a vaccine but also in its distribution.
Read More3 Ways to ‘Stay Invested’ in 2021
Are there strategies an investor can take advantage of when certain sector valuations come into question? BetaShares’ Alex Holmes offers three ways of doing so.
Read MoreProperty vs. Sharemarket: The age-old debate
Whilst interest rates are at record lows and are likely to remain there for several years, should you be taking advantage of the current market environment by investing in property or investing in the sharemarket?
Read MoreTwo Top Risks for 2021 and ETFs that May Benefit
Alistair Mills from BetaShares gives some thoughts on how to potentially turn risks into opportunities using ETFs.
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ETFs for Christmas – what could your gift be worth in 5 years?
Buying your kids the new PlayStation 5 for Christmas? If you had invested the cost in ETFs five years ago, what would be the value of your Christmas gift today?
Read MoreDRUG – a helpful prescription?
COVID-19 and its impacts have been felt across the globe, and as we approach year’s end, promising developments in the race for a vaccine dominate the news.
Read MoreCore strength: working the abs of your investment portfolio
A well-diversified portfolio can assist with reducing volatility and enhancing performance returns.
Read MoreGlobal ETF Review Q3 2020
The global ETF industry continued its recovery in Q3 from the market turmoil earlier this year, breaking the US$7T barrier in August before retreating slightly in September as asset values fell.
Read MoreHistory Repeats Itself, As Small Caps Outperform
It pays to be diversified – and 2020 has been no exception. The Australian small cap market offers breadth and opportunity for those investors willing to accept the risk that comes with an investment in a basket of small companies.
Read MoreU.S. election: Three possible scenarios, and ways investors could play them
With the U.S. Presidential election now less than a week away, many investors are currently considering how the potential result could impact their portfolios.
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Aussie Tech showing resilience: an update following the Q2 rebalance
On 4 March 2020, we launched the BetaShares S&P/ASX Australian Technology ETF (ASX: ATEC), the first ETF focused on providing access to Australia’s fast-growing technology sector. ATEC offers exposure to a diversified portfolio of dynamic ASX-listed tech players such as Xero, Afterpay, Seek, WiseTech Global and carsales.com.
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Asian Tech: Tiger Amongst The Bears
As we enter the second half of 2020, it’s clear that the steady sharemarket rise of the last 10 years has ended, and we are in a new time of volatility and uncertainty. Following the historic market sell-off in Q1 and subsequent recovery in Q2, markets have largely laid flat and trended sideways for the past few weeks.
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