ETFs

The forgotten precious metal – silver – is quietly having a blinder of a year. With a 34.7% gain so far, silver is outperforming gold, the S&P 500, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the DAX Index in Germany, and the Nikkei index in Tokyo. At US$24.27 an ounce, silver is up 63.3% since March, but…

LIC/LIT IPO Vintage Year Analysis The listed investment company/listed investment trust (LIC/LIT) sector in the ASX has copped a lot of criticism over the last 12 months, in relation to the apparent mis-selling of new issues and conflicts of interest. We have no interest in revisiting the debate, other than to say that it is…

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 inputs for new strategies, such as thematic investing. The concept of ‘thematic’ investing, which describes the strategy of identifying sectors of the economy expected to…

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 access, in one listed stock, to the entire stock market through tracking an index. Gone were the worries of paying “active” management fees and failing…

Gold prices have seen specialist Exchange Traded Fund provider, ETF Securities move beyond $3 billion in assets under management to start the new financial year.

The well-known fund manager has launched a series of low-cost ETFs which will help further its reach into the retail investor market.

All that glitters, active vs. passive and why a closer look at infrastructure.

In uncertain times such as the present, with asset prices and exchange rates fluctuating unpredictably, many investors are looking to make sure their portfolios are well-diversified, a and to shore-up the defensive areas of their portfolios; while also looking to hedge risk in other parts of the portfolio – and even to take advantage of…

In hindsight, March 2nd, 2020, as the world started to get to grips with the scale of the global health emergency that was unfolding in the form of the Covid-19 pandemic, was an inauspicious time to launch a new investment product. In fact, the S&P/ASX 200 Index is down 19% since that day – after…

In a sea of potential contrarian trades, oil is one that stands out. The North American West Texas Intermediate (WTI) benchmark has lost more than 75 per cent since the start of 2020, seeing it fall to its lowest price since 2002. The European Brent grade has dropped by almost 65 per cent. They are…