Yesterday
These are the best performing ETFs in 2024
But the market drivers for exchange-traded funds are forecast to be quite different in 2025.
- Alexandra Cain
November
- Exclusive
- Online trading
Betashares’ no-fee broking ignites intense competition for investors
The start of free transactions for the first time in Australia comes as Bell Financial snaps up popular low-cost platform Selfwealth for $51 million.
- Jemima Whyte
- Opinion
- Investing
Why Australian investors of all ages are switching to offshore shares
Those aged 25 to 49 have a roughly half-half split between domestic and international markets, but the change has been most marked among over-50s.
- Adam DeSanctis
Bitcoin tipped to hit $US100,000 as euphoria floods crypto
Traders are betting its rally through $US76,000 is just the beginning of a powerful bull market, sparked by looser regulation under the return of Donald Trump.
- Alex Gluyas
October
Investors flood into bitcoin, gold as Trump bets surge
Brokers are experiencing a wave of cash into cryptocurrencies and gold as investors ramp up bets that the former president will return to the White House.
- Updated
- Alex Gluyas
War stocks demand soars as defence ETFs flood ASX
The world’s largest providers have rushed to list funds to cash in on the increased military spending and simmering geopolitics around the globe.
- Alex Gluyas
- Opinion
- Opinion
Why thematic ETFs are usually duds
Thematic exchange-traded funds – think electric vehicles, renewable energy or AI – promise to cash in on exciting trends, but are often disappointing.
- Duncan Burns
September
Mirae Asset’s ETF shop Global X Australia ends CEO search
Street Talk understands GAM Investment managing director Alex Zaika will soon pop up at the $7.8 billion exchange-traded fund shop.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Regal’s Platinum play | What US cuts mean for the RBA | Will bank shares ever fall?
This week James and Anthony go inside Regal’s bid for Platinum and question the Fed’s call on rates.
Trump meets Harris; RBA’s jobs boom warning; Pub buyer probed
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
- Opinion
- Opinion
As term deposit rates fall, there’s another option for savers
Cash and money market ETFs allow investors to generate comparable returns to term deposits, but with greater access to ready liquidity.
- Cameron Gleeson
Big round of redundancies at Vanguard Australia
Vanguard’s local outpost has pushed through a sizeable round of redundancies in a rare move for the business.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
August
Millennial Zac dumps home ownership dream for ETFs
Zac Shparberg, 30, says he has no hope of owning a property in the city he grew up in. So, he’s embraced a different wealth creation plan that experts say could work.
- Tom Richardson
Young investors buy geared ETFs as property becomes a pipe dream
Leverage is what makes the housing market such a wealth juggernaut. Should ETFs get the same treatment?
- Lucy Dean
Portfolio head exits ETF powerhouse Global X as departures mount
Street Talk understands head of portfolio management Cliff Man is on his way out the door after more than a decade with the firm.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
July
US regulators approve ether ETF in latest crypto milestone
The SEC has signed off on a spot ETF that invests directly in the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency. The digital asset has already jumped 50 per cent this year.
- Emily Graffeo
The Aussie funds that beat bitcoin and big tech
It was often savvy bets at the smaller end of the market that shot the top-performing fund managers to the top of the leader table in the last financial year.
- Updated
- Joshua Peach
Not rich enough! Why my financial adviser dumped me
Half a million Australians have been ‘sacked’ by their financial planners as firms clamour to win wealthier clients.
- Penny Wise
Popularity of sustainable ETFs dives to lowest in a decade
Platinum Asset Management will terminate its Global Transition Fund due to low demand.
- Michelle Bowes and Joanna Mather
- Opinion
- Bonds
Markets owe it to themselves to fill in the black holes
Questions are being asked over bond market trading because market players no longer feel the incentive to police their own reputations among their own number.
- Les Hosking
