While dollar-cost averaging is one way to buy into the market at this volatile time, an alternative strategy is investing in factor-based ETFs. Whilst traditional ETFs track a market-cap weighted index, a factor-based ETF applies a rules-based investing approach.
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The ASX ETF market cap decreased by $2.1bn in February, down to $63.6bn. The reduction was due to decreasing assets prices as the sector still experienced net inflows of $1.5bn.
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Passive ETFs have grown over the past 12 months to a FUM greater than $48bn and this style of ETFs continue to see the greatest net inflows each month.
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Investing in RARI will not impact climate change, but it will provide investors with a diversified portfolio of Australian shares with materially lower exposure to the risks from carbon emissions and reserves.
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Gerald Stack, Portfolio Manager of the Magellan Infrastructure Fund, Currency Hedged (ASX code: MICH), discusses the yield opportunities presently on offer in the Infrastructure sector.
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Reporting season for Australian companies is around the corner and following that is the reconstitution of RDV’s holdings. RDV’s underlying index is reconstituted twice a year in March and September. This timeline allows consensus forecasts (which feed into the underlying methodology) to be updated after companies report on earnings in February (half-year) and August (full-year).
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Gerald Stack, Magellan’s Head of Infrastructure explains how infrastructure stocks can maintain their defensive qualities by managing the impact of natural disasters.
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William Gormly digs through the October ETF performance which saw VanEck Vectors Australian Banks ETF (MVB) produce the lowest return amongst the domestic mandated ETFs.
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A surge in investment in gold-backed ETFs offset a decline in purchases of jewellery, bars, and coins to push global gold demand slightly higher in the third quarter, according to the World Gold Council’s latest quarterly demand report.
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William Gormly digs through the September ETF flows and explains why employing a strategic asset allocation (SAA) can minimise the overall level of portfolio risk for a given level of return.
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Global equity ETFs continue to have provided relatively consistent positive net flows each of the past 12 months. Domestic equity has been more volatile over the last 12 months.
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Silver has become increasingly interesting to many investors. Not only does it exhibit similar properties to it more popular brother, gold, but it also has a much wider application in industry which gold doesn’t have.
Read MoreStructurally, Passive Exchange Traded Funds and Active Exchange Traded Funds are similar, but they also have some differences that are important for investors to understand.
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Australian investors now have the opportunity to access the vibrant and rapidly growing Indian economy with the launch of the first exchange-traded fund offering exposure to Indian stocks.
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ETF Securities’ ZUSD ETF offers investor a cheap and effective US Dollar currency play. ETFS’ Head of Sales, Kanish Chugh, tells Informed Investor more.
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With the US economy looking increasingly vulnerable to a slowdown, it might be time to refocus your sights on Europe – 20% of the world’s GDP.
Read MoreInvestors have voted with their wallets and given a big thumbs up to low-cost passive investment funds and a big negative to active investors after the miserable performances seen in 2018 – especially the final quarter.
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ETF Securities has urged investors to consider the benefits of gold as mounting uncertainty in 2019 calls for portfolio diversification and a keen focus on reducing losses.
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In this video ETF Securities Gemma Weeks examines the key movements over the past week in the Australian ETF market.
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In this video ETF Securities Nicola Culey examines the key movements over the past week in the Australian ETF market.
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In this video ETF Securities Kris Walesby examines the key movements over the past week in the Australian ETF market.
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In this video ETF Securities Gemma Weeks looks over the key movements over the past week in the Australian ETF market.
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In this video ETF Securities Kris Walesby examines the key movements over the past week in the Australian ETF market.
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In this video ETF Securities Kanish Chugh examines the key movements over the past week in the Australian ETF market.
Read MoreAchieving wealth creation goals by building a cost and tax efficient portfolio is never easy, but index ETFs can be an invaluable tool to do it.
Read MoreAn increasing recognition by investors of the power of portfolio diversification would rank among the top reasons for the sustained and fast-growing popularity of exchange traded funds (ETFs).
Read MoreETFs are growing in popularity by the day, with Australians now entrusting nearly $40 billion of their savings in these products.
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In this video ETF Securities Kanish Chugh examines the key movements over the past week in the Australian ETF market.
Read MoreIn this video ETF Securities Kris Walesby examines the key movements over the past week in the Australian ETF market.
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In this video ETF Securities Gemma Weeks examines the key movements over the past week in the Australian ETF market.
Read MoreIn this video ETF Securities Gemma Weeks examines the key movements over the past week in the Australian ETF market.
Read MoreIn this video ETF Securities Kanish Chugh examines the key movements over the past week in the Australian ETF market.
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The long-term outlook for a more challenging investment market with low-interest, subdued equity returns and higher volatility has led to some investors wondering whether a radically new investment strategy is warranted.
Read MoreSome retirees and other investors fast-approaching retirement set aside one to two years of living expenses if possible in a cash "bucket". This is to act as a volatility buffer to try to avoid having to sell growth assets at depressed prices to provide enough retirement income during a market downturn.
Read MoreOne of the most fundamental issues for investors is how to create a properly diversified portfolio – whether from scratch or by reworking an existing portfolio.
Read MoreAmong the prime reasons for the popularity of exchange traded funds (ETFs) is that the products pass a series of ease-of-investing tests. This is in addition to their typically low costs.
Read MoreIt is about now when those well-intentioned New Year resolutions start to come under pressure.
Read MoreCommentary by Andy Clarke, senior investment strategist in Vanguard Investment Strategy Group.
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